Tommaso Salvini (1829-1915) was the greatest Italian actor of his time and perhaps the finest exponent of the grand classical manner. Gordon Craig recalls memories of a conversation with Salvini in Florence in 1913.

Stephen Potter discusses, with quotations, the key passages in the development of his musical taste

An imagination in situ by Jacquetta Hawkes
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Music composed by William Wordsworth and conducted by John Hotcnkis

Pierre Bernac (baritone)
Helen Gaskell (oboe d'amore) Harry Danks (viola d'amore) Desmond Dupre (tenor viol) Programme edited by Denis Stevens

A talk on Communism in Malaya by Hugh Carleton Greene
The speaker has recently returned from Kuala Lumpur, where he was head of Emergency Information Services.

Abbey Simon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Part 1

Harman Grisewood reads the description by Walter Daniel , Abbot of Rievaulx, of the last days of his master Ailred, who died in 1167 (Translation by Sir Maurice Powicke )

Part 2

An illustrated talk by Naomi Lewis on the child in adult fiction

Lauda per la Nativita del Signore
(soprano)(contralto)(tenor)
London Chamber Singers London Chamber Players
Conductor, Anthony Bernard

by John Keats
Read by Pamela Brown