James Johnston (tenor) Robert Irwin (baritone)
Josephine Lee (piano)

An excursion in literature and mythology
Written and produced by Terence Tiller
' They say the owl was a baker's daughter What arc the legends and beliefs behind this enigmatic remark of Ophelia's In Act 4 of Hamlet? How far was Shakespeare conscious of them, and why does he think them relevant to his play? These are among the questions this programme tries to answer.

Sonata in C. Op. 102 No. 1 played by Pau Casals (cello)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano) on gramophone records followed. by an interlude at 7.50

A series of eight lectures by the Rev. V. A. Demant , Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford
Given before an audience in the Council Chamber, Broadcasting House. London 1
—The Great Reversal
In this opening lecture Canon Demant begins with a reference to the lectures given by R. H. Tawney in 1922 on Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Those lectures were about the influence of religious ideas on economic change. Canon Demant goes on to define what arose as Capitalism and is now in decline. He shows how unusual a development it was, and analyses the implications of its decline. There is a religious significance in the end of the short life of Capitalism; the many strands usually included in this one system must be shown to be separate; its organisation, its culture, and its philosophy do not necessarily all decline together. Canon Demant gives some of the reasons for the decline, and raises the question whether the reversal is a return to a more natural condition or whether it is the end of the whole civilised career of man.
This lecture, to be repeated on May 2, will be printed in The Listener ' dated May 11. Next lecture: May 6

Gioconda de Vito (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conductor,
Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1

The First Protagonist of Collective Security
A political and psychological analysis of WilKam in by Professor G. J. Renier , Professor of Dutch History in the University of London

Part 2

Talk by Peter Brook
Peter Brook, whose production of Measure for Measure is now running at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and who has also been responsible this season for the productions of The Olympians, Salome, and Ring Round the Moan, discusses the contemporary theatre from the standpoint of a producer.

BBC. Midland Chorus
Conductor, James Denny Alleluia, ascendit Deus Salve regina
Praise our Lord. ye Gentiles Diffusa est gratia Gaudeamus omnes
Christe qui lux es et dies Exsurge Domine

A programme of readings to accompany the talk by J. Isaacs
Readers:
Lockwood West, Charles E. Stidwill