Henriette Canter (violin)
John Simons (piano)

by Sir Charles Webster , K.c.M.G. Stevenson Professor of International History in the University of London and President of the British Academy (A shortened, recorded version of a speech given at the annual Oration Dav at the London School of Economics.)

William Pleeth (cello)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by John Pritchard
Part 1 conducted by the composer
(first performance in this country)

Dom Aelred Watkin , F.S.A., talks about ' John Gerard : the autobiography of an Elizabethan'

Part 2
(Given before an invited audience, in co-operation with the London Contemporary Music Centre)

by Dorothy Johnson
An episode from her book
' Giuliano the Innocent'
Music composed by Matyas Seiber Production by Frederick Bradnum

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
(Postponed from Feb. 6)
Benjamin Britten's Canticle is a setting of part of a fourteenth-century miracle play, ' The Sacrifice of Isaac,* which belongs to the Chester Scriptural Cycle. It is the composer's most recent work, and was first performed in Nottingham last January. The Canticle, which was specially written for Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears, reveals, on a miniature scale, the skill and imagination of the composer (more particularly when setting words to music), together with his ingenuity in devising a novel and evocative piano accompaniment.
Harold Rutland

Alfred de Musset
Talk by J. M. Cocking
Lecturer in French at King's College, London

Quartet in A, Op. 9 No. 6 Quartet in G. Op. 33 No. 5 played by the Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin) Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
(The. recorded broadcast of Nov. 10)