A story by Donagh MacDonagh
Read by Harry Hutchinson

A dramatic oratorio by Handel (soprano)(soprano) (counter-tenor)(tenor)(tenor)(bass)(bass)(bass)
Continuo:
Katharine Thomson (harpsichord)
Raymond Clark (cello)
Birmingham University Special Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
From the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
(by permission of the Trustees)
Act 1

Talk by the Earl of Cardigan
Recently Lord Cardigan discovered in Wiltshire a large collection of family papers relating to his ancestors and antecedents. Rescuing these documents from neglect he became absorbed by their content and made a careful study of them. In this talk he describes his discovery and refers to some interesting historical details that emerge from these papers.

Herbert Read reviews the book by Suzanne Langer first published in the U.S.A. nine years ago
The book is ' a study in the symbolism of reason, rite, and art ' and its main purpose is to show that there has arisen in recent years a philosophy of symbolism that offers a new clue to the understanding of many problems outside the range of empirical science. This philosophy has particular importance in the field of aesthetics.

Another performance: March 19

A relation of the circumstances attending the publication of the letters of Alexander Pope by Michael Swan with Dennis ArundeM as Pope
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
This programme describes the tortuous machinations by which Pope arranged for his letters to be pirated so that without appearance of vanity he could publish a complete and accurate edition of his own.

Variations and Fugue on a theme of Beethoven, Op. 86 for two pianos played by Harry Isaacs and York Bowen
Eighth of ten programmes of music by Roger arranged by Donald Mitchell

Talk by Gilbert Murray ,
O.M. Jane Harrison was born iust over a hundred years ago and her centenary has recently been celebrated in Cambridge. In' this talk Dr. Gilbert Murray describes her vivid personality and the widespread influence of her studies of Greek religion. (The recorded broadcast of March 3)
See also tomorrow at 11.5

Quartet in E flat, Op. 51 prayed by the Vienna Philharmonia Quartet:
Franz Samohyl (violin)
Siegfried Rumpold (vioMn)
August Pioro (viola)
Richard Harand (cello)