Short story by John Galsworthy
Reader, Laidman Browne
Oboe Concerto in one movement (Eugene Goossens ): Leon Goossens (oboe) and Philharmonia Orchestra. conducted by Walter Susskind
The Pines of the Villa Borghese; The Pines near a Catacomb; The Pines of the Janiculum; The Pines of the Appian Way (The Pines of Rome) (Respighi): Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy on gramophone records
by Lady Cynthia Asquith
Lady Cynthia Asquith first met D. H. Lawrence in August 1913 at Kingsgate. near Broadstairs. She saw him frequently throughout the war years either in Sussex or in London, and whenever he returned to England after the war; and received hundreds of letters from him, of which about sixty were published in the collected ' Letters,' edited by Aldous Huxley.
Second of a series of five talks
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Bruno Walter (piano)
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
Hallam Fordham reads a passage from G. K. Chesterton 's study of the poet
Part 2
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
10—The Clerk of Oxford's
Preamble and Tale
Production by Stephen Potter
Quintet for piano and strings played by the Quintetto Chigiano:
Riccardo Brengola (violin)
Edmondo Malanotte (violin)
Giovanni Leone (viola)
Lino Filippini (cello) Sergio Lorenzi (piano)
' The Ballad of Reading Gaol'
Read by Cecil Trouncer
Production by Hugh Stewart
French Suite No. 4, in E Hat
French Suite No. 3, in B minor played by Isabelle Nef (harpsichord)
Noel Annan , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, comments on General Eisenhower's book