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by F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D. Director of the Science Museum South Kensington
Dr. Sherwood Taylor has made a special study of alchemy. In this talk he examines what might be called the technology of alchemy, which evolved into the chemical techniques and laboratories of today, and considers the mass of symbolic pictures left by the alchemists - pictures that illumine the medieval ideas of nature and man.

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Speaker:
Dr. F. Sherwood Taylor

A romance in commonplace
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
A wild card can be anything: the portrait of a wild card
(Continued in next column) also: sports fans, men in the street, parrots in the Parrot House, and knights errant

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Roger:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Margaret, his wife:
Brenda Bruce
Timmy, his son:
Sean Barrett
Cronk, his colleague:
Malcolm Hayes
The Joker:
Richard Hurndall
Heliodora:
Cecile Chevreau
The Herald:
Raf de la Torre
The Nurse:
Marjorie Westbury

Four talks to mark the fourth centenary of Spenser's birth
3 — ' The Prince of Poets of his Tyme' by E. M. W. Tillyard , Litt.D.
Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
The speaker discusses whether Spenser did in fact fulfil the great ambitions he entertained when he wrote The Faerie
Queene. Dr. Tillyard shows how Spenser consciously set out to emulate Ariosto and how he aimed at being the English Virgil, and places him in h:s literary context -native and European. The title of this talk is taken from the epitaph on Spenser's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

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Unknown:
E. M. W. Tillyard

Alfred Orda (baritone)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello) Colin Horsley (piano)

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Baritone:
Alfred Orda
Accompanist:
Josephine Lee
Violin:
Erich Gruenberg
Violin:
Lionel Bentley
Viola:
Keith Cummings
Cello:
Douglas Cameron
Piano:
Colin Horsley

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