A Venetian Story by Lord Byron Read by Anthony Quayle
Production by Frank Hauser

Sonata in E minor, Op. 38 for cello and piano played by Thelma Reiss (cello)
John Wills (piano)

by F. R. Leavis
Dr. Leavis recently published ' The Great Tradition,' a study of three English novelists. He holds that D. H. Lawrence was the last representative of this tradition, and ' in the English language, the great genius of our time.'
Fourth of a series of five talks

Theo Olof (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1

by Moray McLaren

Part 2 conducted by the composer
William Walton 's
Symphony, first performed in its entirety in 1935, is passionate, high-powered, and dazzling. Even in the slow movement (marked con malincolia) there is little repose. At the opening of the work a drum roll in B flat ushers in an insistent, rhythmical figure on the strings which, after various adventures, reaches an overwhelming climax. Note the descending second, at the end of the oboe phrase near the beginning: this plays a prominent part in the Symphony. The second movement, the Scherzo, is directed to be played ' with malice.' The finale (completed after the previous movements had been publicly performed) opens majestically, gathers speed, and includes a spirited fugue. — Harold Rutland

First of two broadcasts in which Daniel Jones , Professor of Phonetics in the University of London, illustrates the changing pronunciation of English
Tonight he begins with Anglo-Saxon speech and ends with Elizabethan

Rene Soames (tenor) Diana Poulton (lute)
The Bodley Singers
Conductor, Bernard Rose

Short story by H. E. Bates
Reader, Duncan Carse

Variations sérieuses, Op. 64
(Mendelssohn)
Children's Corner Suite (Debussy):
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum: Jimbo's Lullaby; Serenade for the Doll; The snow is dancing: The Little Shepherd; Golliwogg's Cake-walk on gramophone records