Louis Napoleon
Talk by A. J. P. Taylor

The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello) Fantasia No. 1 a 3 Three Fantasias & 4:
No. 7; No. 5; No. 8
Chaconne
First of a series of four programmes

A short story by Wayland Hilton-Young Read by Alan Wheatley

Sonata in C. Op. 2 No. 3
Sonata in C minor, Op. 13
(Pathetique) played by Claudio Arrau (piano)
Third of sixteen recitals

Talk by Thomas Mann

Song-cycle:
The Heart's Assurance
Oh, journeyman (Alun Lewis ); The heart's assurance (Sidney Keyes ); Compassion (Alun Lewis ); The dancer (Alun Lewis ); Remember your lovers (Sidney Keyes ) sung by Peter Pears (tenor) withMewton-Wood (piano)
Alun Lewis and Sidney Keyes , the two poets Michael Tippett has drawn upon for his song-cycle, were both killed in the last war; and the general theme of the. work is ' Love under the shadow of death.' The song-cycle, which has an elaborate piano part, was first performed on May 7, 1951, by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten , at the first of the series of six public recitals of English song given by the BBC at the Wigmore Hall as part of the London Festival of the Arts.
H.R.

A monthly review of current questions in architecture and town planning
Dublin
J. M. Richards , who recently revisited Dublin, talks about the city's successes-and failures-in architecture and planning

A portrait of the Irish dramatist drawn from the recorded memories of his contemporaries

Richard Adeney (flute)
"he London Classical Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conductor, Trevor Harvey

An American and a European View Margaret Miller reviews ' How Strong is Russia? ' by T. Zavalini and ' Russia's Soviet Economy' by H. Schwartz

Partita No. 4, in D played by Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)