Symphony No. 5, In B flat played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Conducted by Artur Rodzinski on gramophone records

Elections, 1950
E H Carr talks about the recent elections to the Supreme Soviet and the general significance of elections in the U.S.S.R.

Sonata No. 3 played by David Martin (violin) Iris Loveridge (piano)
Last of three programmes of Delius' violin sonatas.

The History Picture in English Art by Charles Mitchell
The speaker examines the attempt by English connoisseurs and artists to impose the principles of classical art theory upon a society that naturally demanded portrait painting.
Fifth of a series of talks

An excursion in literature and mythology
Written and produced by Terence Tiller with Oliver Burt , Arthur Bush
Robert Farquharson , Basil Jones
Diana Maddox. Hugh Manning
James McKechnie , Bryan Fowley
Charles E. Stidwill
Jacqueline Thompson. Lockwood West
Alan Wheatley , John Witty
* They say the owl was a baker's daughter ...' What are 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.

Richard Lewis (tenor)
Mewton-Wood (piano)
Third of a series of programmes of English songs.
(To be repeated on Friday at 11.0)
(Next programme June 12)
(Another performance of Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets: June 1)
Benjamin Britten set to music, for tenor voice and piano, seven sonnets of Michelangelo (in the original Italian) while he was in America in October 1940. Shortly afterwards, when he returned to this country, they were performed, broadcast, and recorded here, and did as much as anything, before "Peter Grimes", to establish his reputation.
Michael Tippett 's "Cantata" is a setting of some words from W. H. Hudson 's autobiography "Far Away and Long Ago", the book in which Hudson recalls his childhood in the Argentine. The words come from the chapter headed "Boyhood's End", where Hudson as an old man looks back on the recollected emotions of his fifteenth birthday, when he first became afraid that he might lose his peculiar contact with nature. They describe something of what that contact meant to him as a boy of fifteen. (Harold Rutland)

by Henry Harrison
The speaker, who was a friend and colleague of Charles Stewart Parnell , describes how he was elected to Parliament as an Irish Nationalist while still an undergraduate.

Piano Sonata In A flat, No. 46 played by Phyllis Sellick
Last of six programmes of Haydn's piano sonatas. (The sonata is numbered according to the Breitkopf collected edition of Haydn's works)

A programme of readings to accompany the talk by Charles Mitchell this evening at 7.20
Readers:
Stephen Jack and Lockwood West

Quintetto Chigiano:
Riccardo Brengola (violin)
Mario Benvenuti (violin)
Giovanni Leone (viola)
Lino Filippini (cello) Sergio Lorenzi (piano)

by Sir William Hamilton Fyfe
The speaker holds that undeserved oblivion has overtaken the Greek critic whose work waited fifteen centuries to achieve fame throughout Europe.