Max Rostal (violin)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Hugo Rignold

Read, with a commentary, by the author

The Cecilian Madrigal Singers
Directed by Joyce Gow
Ruth Dyson (harpsichord)
Madrigals:
All at once well met fair ladies; Now every tree renews; 0 care thou wilt dispatch me; Like two proud armies
Harpsichord:
Pavan and Galliard
Madrigals:
Cease sorrow now; See where the maids are singing; Young Cupid hath proclaimed a bloody war; As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
First of two programmes arranged by Denis Arnold

Forty-fifth of a series of reports on the Soviet point of view as expressed in the Soviet Press and broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the* BBC foreign news department
. To be repeated tomorrow

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

Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
The Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
(The quartets are recorded)
Beethoven's Quintet for piano and wind, Op. 16: December 21

A comment by Alfred Schenkman on the social sciences in the U.S.A.
Mr. Schenkman has held the post of reaching Fellow in Social Science at Harvard University.
(The recorded broadcast of April 4)

played by Charles Spinks