The Nature of London
Talk by John Summerson ,
Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum
As an introduction to this series on the replanning of London, the speaker analyses several parts of the modern city to show the way in which it has grown in the past. What we see is an accumulation of centuries of varying intentions and often unrelated efforts.
First of four talks

A comedy in three acts by Alfred de Musset
Cast in order of speaking:
Production and adaptation for radio by J. Weltman

A masque by William Congreve
Music by Arne
BBC Men's Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Continuo, John Wills
Conducted by Patrick Savill
Presentation by Geoffrey Dunn
Narrator, James McKeehnie
Scene: The slopes of Mount Ida

Alexander Pope by Geoffrey Tillotson , Professor of English Literature at Birkbeek College. London University
The speaker presents Pope as a poet of plenitude, and tries to discern the means by which he saved himself from being overwhelmed by the phenomena of the world and of man. Professor Tillotson is particularly concerned with the Essay on Man.
Sixth of a series of talks

or ' The Sailor's Return
A dramatic pastoral
Words by Isaac Bickerstaffe
Music by Arne
BBC Men's Chorus
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
Continuo, John Wills
Conducted by Patrick Savill
Presentation by Geoffrey Dunn
Narrator, James McKechnie
Both operas produced by Douglas Cleverdon
First of a series of programmes of music by Arne

Passages from his work chosen and introduced by Professor Geoffrey Tillotson to illustrate the poet's philosophy
Reader, Lesley Crease

William Glock gives the first of two illustrated talks on Bartok's six books of progressive piano pieces called Mikrokosmos
First of four programmes

' The land was ours before we were the land's '
First of two talks by Perry Miller , Professor of American Literature at Harvard University

Quintet in E flat, Op. 97 played by the Prague String Quartet
Richard Kosderka (viola) on gramophone recorda