Sir Arthur Grimble tells a version of the creation myth which he heard and took down from an elder of the Sun Clan in the Gilbert Islands thirty-five years ago

Gerainit Jones (organ)
Chorale Preludes:
In dulci jubilo
Herr Jesti Christ dich zu uns wend
Harzlich tut mich verlarugen
Durch Adams Fall 1st ganz verderbt Nun freuet Euch
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Three talks on the nature of perception by W. Russell Brain
President of the Royal College of Physicians
1—The Intervention of the Nervous System
In this talk Dr. Brain discuses the part played by the nervous system in perception and the peculiar features of the perceptual ‘ world ’ that result from It
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‘ The Only Jealousy of Emer ’
One of ' Four Plays for Dancers ' by W. B. Yeats
‘ While writing these plays, intended for some fifty people in a drawing-room or a studio. I have so rejoiced in my freedom from the stupidity of an ordinary audience that I have filled The Only Jealousy of Emer wirh convictions about the nature and history of a woman's beauty.....' W. B. Yeats
Singer, René Soames with music tor flute, harp, percussion, and singer composed and directed by Humphrey Searle
This play will be followed by related thought, on the same subject, drawn from Yeats' poems
Produced by W. R. Rodgers

Prepared for performance by Denis Stevens
The Deller Consort:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
The Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
An Instrumental Ensemble
The Mass is preceded by a recorded Introductory batik by Alec Robertson Stravinsky, in his recently composed Mass, affects the conscious neo-medievalism which is enhanced by comparison with Machaut's Mass. The new version of the latter work uses wind instruments and tonal percussion which have their counterpart in the carvings and stained glass of countless Gothic cathedrals. D. S.

Talk by Alick Dru
* Sainte-Beuve was tortured by the tension between the success of his career and the failure of his life.' Alick Dru analyses these two facts.

sung by the trebles and altos of the Choir of Hampstead Parish Church
Conductor, Martindale Sidwell
BBC Singers (Men's Voices)
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate with a Wind EreembJe
Conducted by Herbert Murrill

A series of ten readings from the English translation by Rene Hague
3-Roland is chosen to lead the rearguard. The army of Marsiliun advances on Roncesvals
Reader, Hallam Fordham
Music composed by Antony Hopkins

Margaret Bissctt (contralto) Josephine Lee (accompanist)
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Fourteenth of a series of programmes of quartets by Haydn and songs by Schubert.

Talk by M. M. Postan ,
Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge
Since 1801 a census of the population has been taken at fairly regular intervals in the British Isles, and from the evidence provided it has been possible to study the changing size of the community in increasing detail over the past ISO years. The problem of determining the size of the population in the centuries before the regular operation of the census is more complex but no less important. In this talk Professor Postan describes the rise and fall of population through the earlier periods of English history.

Piano Sonata. No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11 played by Edith Vogel