Goethe's Reception in Britain
Talk by J. Isaacs
The British in the last century and a half have shown to Goethe's works more indifference than attention. But he has had a definite influence on certain British writers, and in this talk J. Isaacs considers its nature and extent.
Sixteenth of a series of talks

John Francis (flute)
Joy Boughton (oboe)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
Sonata No. 5, in G. for flute
Sonata No. 8, in C minor, for oboe Sonata No. 9, in B minor, for flute
First of three recitals of Handel's chamber music

Adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
(Continued in next column)
(Richard Burton and Esmé Percy are appearing in 'The Lady's Not for Burning ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
In Nightmare Abbey, one of the gayest of nineteenth-century conversation pieces, several of Peacock's friends were portrayed -Shelley in the guise of the romantic young idealist Scythrop, Coleridge as the metaphysical Dr. Flosky. Shelley , in Italy, was delighted with the novel, and gave the name of Scythrop's Tower to the tower in which he was working at Valsovano.
Part 1

Suite, Le tombeau de Couperin: Prelude; Forlane; Minuet; Rigaudon played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Jean Martinon on gramophone records

Part 2

Mascia Predit (soprano)
Boris Christoff (bass)
Ernest Lush (piano)
The Tempest
Song-cycle. Sunless:
Between Four Walls
Thou didst not know me in the crowd
The idle. noisy day is ended Boredom Elegy
On the River
Songs and Dances of Death:
Trepak Lullaby Serenade
The Field-Marshal

Empiricist and Democrat by Bertrand Russell
First of a group of four talks on the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher
The other speakers are Professor A. J. Ayer. Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College. London; F. G. Young , Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University: and F. C. Copleston, s.j.. Professor of the History of Philosophy at Heythrop College

Piano Sonata in C (Unfinished) Piano Sonata in A minor. Op. 164 played by Peter Stadlen
Third of fourteen programmes of Schubert's piano music

by C. Day Lewis
Part 3-' A Letter from Rome '
C. Day Lewis reads the third section of his new poem on Italy. In it he describes the effect on him of the traditional scenes and modern anomalies of post-war Rome.

Symphony No. 5 played by the Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Conductor,
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt