General editor. Gerald Abraham
60-Comic Opera in the late eighteenth century Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
John Wynton (tenor)
Norman Platt (baritone)
Frederick Stone (harpsichord)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz ) Conducted by Patrick Savill
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Including music by Rousseau, Duni. Dalayrac, Paer, Paisiello, Salieri

Introductory talk by Professor Basil Willey
Is thcie a deep-seated antipathy between poetry and philosophy, .between the products of emotion and of reason? Since Plato excluded the poets from his ideal Republic the question has had a long history, and at different periods it has been differently approached.
Future speakers in this series will examine the theory and practice of some major English philosophic poets. In this talk Professor Willey analyses the possible relationships of poetic to philosophic thought by examining the fundamental issues.
7. A. W. Bennett on Langland: Feb. 20

by James Thurber
A fairy story for older children adapted for broadcasting by Len Tennyson
Wizards, dwarfs, signs, and voices played by Sydney Keith , Ian Catford. Clarence Wright. Harry Hutchinson
Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Production by Michael Barsley
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 25) Writing :n our Christmas number James Thurber said: ' The While Deer was brought out as a trade edition book for the adult market, since I hoped to reach grown-ups as well as children. I have never heaid from a child who had any Jifficulty in understanding the tale, but a number of adults, too far removed from the easy comprehension of youth, have been puzzled by it..... I hated to stop work on it, since I enjoyed writing it more than I have enjoyed writing anything else.'

played by the Hungarian String Quartet:
Zollan Szekely (violin)
Alexander Moskowsky (violin)
dpnes Koromzay (viola)
Vilmos Palotai (cello)
The fourth of five recitals

Talk by J. E. Neale
The reign of Queen Elizabeth was a crucial period in parliamentary history. J. E. Neale , Professor of History at London University, describes some aspects of the Elizabethan House of Commons, and shows how much we owe to the developments of those days.

Sonata for viola and piano (1939) played by Herbert Downes (viola)
Mewton-Wood (piano)
(first broadcast performance)

Story by Ormerod Greenwood
Read by Laidman Browne

Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)