Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
played by the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Conducted by Paul Kletzki on gramophone records

W. B. Mercer , M.B.E., talks about the agriculture of the district visited by the 101st Royal Show, held at Shrewsbury this week
The speaker was for many years Principal of the Cheshire School of Agriculture at Reese Heath, and is now provincial director of the National Agricultural Advisory Service for the West Midland Province

played by Denis Matthews and Howard Ferguson
Andantino in B minor, Op. 84 No. 1
Grand March in G minor, Op. 40 No. 2 Characteristic March in C, Op. 121
No. 1
Variations in A flat, Op. 35
Second of three recitals

by Christina Rossetti
Read by Flora Robson
(Flora Robson broadcasts by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

(soprano)
Ethel Cooke (accompanist)
followed by an interlude at 8.25

Reflections by an astrophysicist and a biologist
Dr. Fred Hoyle , Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge, gives his reasons for believing that there must be large numbers of planets in the universe supporting life similar to that on the earth followed by Dr. C. D. Darlington , F.R.S., Director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute, who speculates on the form such life might take

Quintet in F minor for piano and strings played by the Quintetto Chigiano

1-The Prologue

Das Musikalische Opfer played by the London Harpsichord Ensemble

Talk by V. S. Pritchett
Previously broadcast on May 20, the 150th anniversary of Balzac's birth
See also tomorrow at 11.35