A sound picture recorded and introduced by Ludwig Koch
Landing at a breeding place; Auks; Puffins; Gannet colony; Arctic birds; Fulmar petrel; Seagulls attacking a cormorant's nest; Manx shearwaters in burrows; Manx shearwaters in flight
Produced by David Thomson who writes on page 5
Ross Pratt (piano)
A talk by Herbert Butterfield , Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, based on Dr. George F. Kennan's book 'American Diplomacy: 1900-1950'
Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Romanticism and Classicism
Talk by Anthony Blunt
An exhibition of Delacroix's work is at present being held in London at the Wildenstein Gallery. Professor Blunt discusses the romantic and classical elements in his painting and in his ideas.
A new narrative poem by W. R. Rodgers
Read by C. Day Lewis
Peter Stadlen (piano)
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra (Leader. David McCallum )
Conducted by Mosco Carner
Part 1
Talk by Bernard Wall
The speaker has studied Italian affairs for many years and has a particular knowledge of modern Rome; he is author of two studies— ' Rome and South Italy ' and 'Northern Italy and Tuscany.' He has recently returned from a month's stay in Italy.
Part 2
Second of three talks in which Isaac Foot looks back on the West Country as he has known it in a lifetime of more than seventy years
La Messe de Nostre Dame rrepared for performance by Denis Stevens and introduced by Alec Robertson
The Deller Consort:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
The Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
An Instrumental Ensemble