Talk by Sir Cecil Weir
The speaker, who was president of the economic sub-commission of the Control Commission and later chairman of the Dollar Export Board, does not believe that free enterpnse and planning are incompatible but, on the contrary, that under present economic conditions they are necessary complementaries.
by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by Arthur Livingston and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Mary Jarred (contralto)
BBC' Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Part 1
Talk by Saburi Biobaku , Ph.D.
The speaker considers the problems and methods of historical research into non-literate societies, where written documentation is lacking. He refers in particular to the work he is preparing on his own people, the Yoruba of Western Nigeria.
Part 2
Another performance of the works by Haydn Dukas , and Elsa Banaine : tomorrow evening (Home), Haydn's Symphony No. 78: May 6
I
Talk by E. R. Dodds
Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
The speaker analyses the failure of Greek Rationalism and considers to what extent this past experience of Western man is relevant for our own times.
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Third of six programmes each including a quartet by Bartok. Next programme: May 6
Some reminiscences by Tamara Karsavina
Sonata in C. Op. posth.
(Unfinished)
(completed by Ernst Krenek) played by Ray Lev (piano) on gramophone records