As given at the Musical Union on April 29, 1851, with Mr. Sterndale Bennett at the piano
The Whitehead String Ensemble:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Kathleen Sturdy (violin)
Colin Sauer (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola)
Molly Panter (viola) Peter Beavan (cello)
James Whitehead (cello)
William Pleeth (cello) Margaret Good (piano)

The Rev. Charles Kingsley discusses the function of scientific analysis in poetry in- a review of recent volumes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , and George Meredith
Reader, Raf de la Torre

of the year
The second of seven nightly broadcasts in the course of which the news of 1851 is reviewed

1-The Urban Nomads
Compiled by Douglas Cleverdon and Laurence Kitchin from the conversations recorded by Henry Mayhew with Harry Locke , Joe Sterne
Charles Leno. Harry Fowler
Ernest Jay , Charles Lamb Vida Hope. Diana Maddox
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
In 1851 Henry Mayhew published the first volume of his ' London Labour and the London Poor: the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work.' which consists mainly of verbatim reports of his conversations with men and women who followed every kind of occupation in mid-Victorian London

Frederick Grinke (violin)
London Mozart Players
(Leader. Max Salpeter )
Conductor, Harry Blech

by Benjamin Disraeli , M.P .
Reader. Leonard Sachg

by Samuel Warren
Hallam Fordham reads from the book in which Mr. Warren expresses ( his feelings on the occasion of the opening of the Great Exhibition

Violet Carson (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Manton (tenor)
Archie Harradine (comedy singer)
Cliifton Helliwell (accompanist)
Kate Wilson (hanp)
Programme devised by Archie Harradine

Being some reflections upon ' Gastronomy and Civilisation ' by Thomas Love Peacock and his daughter, Mrs. George Meredith
Reader, James Langham

Prelude and Fugue in C minor Prelude and Fugue in E flat Toccata in D minor ' played by George Thalben-Ball (organ)