by Edmund Crispin
What is the aim of detective fiction Has the result any artistic value? Edmund Crispin , author of a number of detective stories, considers these questions. and points out how detective fiction has suffered from a lack of intelligent criticism. (BBC recording)

Elegy for viola solo, string quartet, and string orchestra played by Max Gilbert (viola)
The Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Conductor, Boyd Neel on gramophone records

Discussion between John Green , J. 0. Cherrington, Rolf Gardiner Three West-Country farmers, who contributed to the controversy in the correspondence columns of The Times on the importance of sheep for maintaining soil fertility, carry on their argument at the microphone

Quartet in D played by the Hungarian String Quartet

by Francis Watson
It is two years this month since the British left Simla, summer capital of the Imperial Government for over a hundred years

New production of an extended series of adaptations from Geoffrey Chaucer 's poem in fourteen weekly instalments
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
7-The Pardoner's Preamble and Tale and Production by Stephen Potter

Opera in three acts and five scenes
Libretto by Ranieri Calzabigi
Music by Gluck
Shepherds
Internal and blessed spirits Chorus and Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera
Conducted by Pierre Monteux
The action takes place in legendary times
Act 1
The tomb of Eurydice in Thessaly

First of two talks by Professor Gilbert Ryle on the problem of mind

How far is the habitual distinction between mind and body justified? Professor Ryle suggests that the separation is a false one and should be avoided: it tempts us to describe people's lives in terms of two distinct series of processes, one mental, one physical. But is the description valid? If we look carefully at what we know about human beings. Professor Ryle maintains, we see that it is not.

Act 2
Scene 1: The entrance to Tartarus Scene 2: The Elysian Fields
10.35 Interval
10.45 Act 3
Scene 1: A wild region
Scene 2: The temple of Amor

Geoffrey Grlgson speaks on the typical inhabitants of the nine* teenth-century garden, and their history and survival

Sonata for violin and piano played by Antonio Brosa (violin) Kathleen Long (piano)