Talk by P. H. Newby
May 22 was the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Irish novelist
Maria Edgeworth. She was the first novelist of any real importance to emerge after the death of Smollett, and both Scott and Tuntenev acknowledged their indebtedness to the pictures of Irish life that she gave in such novels as ' Castle Rackrent and ' The Absentee '

Piano Sonata in B flat played by Valda Aveling

Talk by Romain Gary

Symphony No. 1, in E flat played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
Conductor, Ian Whyte

Aims and Methods of the United State* in her Oversea Territories by Mary Proudfoot
Mrs. Proudfoot is engaged on a research project for Nuffield College: ' A Comparative Study of British and American Administration in the Caribbean.' She was previously Lecturer in Modern History in Somervtlle College
Sixth of seven talks

The story of Hamlet as he occurs in Scandinavian legend by Rayner Heppenstall
Also taking part: Betty Baskcomb, Beryl Calder, Catherine Campbell, Richard Hurndall, Charles Lefeaux, Arthur Lowe and Dorothy Summers
Music composed by William Wordsworth played by the BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conductor, Walter Goehr with Martin Boddey (tenor) and Jeanne Chevreau (harp)
Produced by the author
(The recorded broadcast of June 27)
Time: c. A.D. 490. Scene: Jutland, N. Cumbria. S.E. Pictland
Part 1 'The Story in the Shield'

Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Irwin (baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Melne Rose
Schone Wiege meiner Leiden
Schneeglöckchen; Dein Angesicht Zwei Venetianische Lieder Waldesgesprach An den Mond
Ihre Stimme Belsatzar
Provenzalisches Lied Zum Schluss

Part 2
' Hamlet, King of Jutland'

The Art of Fugue
Transcribed by Watson Forbes played by Joan Trimble and Valerie Trimble
(two pianos)
The London String Trio :
Maria Lidka (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
John Moore (cello)