by William Shakespeare

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
See ' Music Diary' on page 27
Beethoven's Symphony No. 4: April 16

Talk by Terence Prittie
Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany

Part 2
Another performance of the works by Beethoven and Strauss: tomorrow evening
(Home Services, not Scottish)

Stoicism-2
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all Objects of all thought
And rolls through all things
Second of four lectures by Bonamy Dobree *
Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds
By permission of the Master and Council of Trinity College, Professor Dobrée is broadcasting a shortened version of four of the Clark Lectures for 1953 recently delivered in Cambridge. In the lectures he illustrates rus thesis of the development of certain ' great impersonal themes ' in English poetry by tracing the course of two of them: stoicism and patriotism.

played by members of the London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Olive Zorian (violin)
Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)

Talk by V. S. Pritchett

Fantasy, Op. 17 played by Clifford Curzon (piano)