A programme of Gaelic and Scots folk song and piping, recorded at the 1952 Ceilidh of the Edinburgh People's Festival
Edited bv Seamus Ennis and presented by Hamish Henderson with Kitty and Marietta MacLeod of Lewis; Arthur Argo of Fyvie; Jimmy Macbeth of Elgin; Blanche Wood of Portknockie; Frank Steele of Banff; and Piper Calum Johnston of Barra
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
This Ceilidh was held in honour of the sixtieth birthday of the poet Hugh Mac -Diarmid. The recordings were made by rhe Phonetics Department of Edinburgh University.

Talk by Laura Bohannan
Lecturer in the Departmen.t of Social Anthropology, Oxford

Eugenie Castle (soprano)
Campoli (violin)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Sonata in A
Aria: Spera, si (Admeto) Sonata in G minor
Aria: Ah! mio cor (Alcina) Sonata in F

A portrait of Jonathan Swift drawn from the recollections of his Dublin friends by Eric Ewens with Michael Collins , Seamus Kavanagh
Dermot Kelly , Diarmuid Kelly Doreen Keogh , Martina Mayne
Shela Ward, John Welsh
Swift's Cantata with music by Dr. John Echlin sung by William Herbert with Clifton Helliwell (harpsichord)
Produced by David Thomson

Janet Howe (contralto)
Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
Ernest Lush (piano)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Oivin Fjeldstad
Part 1
Jean Absil, born in Belgium in 1893, is Director of the Etterbeek Academy of Music. His orchestral output includes three symphonies and four concertos, and he has written chamber music and works for the stage. In this cantata, text and music give the significance of each sign of the Zodiac to those born under it, an imaginative subject full of scope for invention and craftsmanship. The work is written in three movements and relies mostly on the variation form. It was performed under the direction of Oivin Fjeldstad at the twenty-seventh festival of the I.S.C.M. held in Oslo this summer.

Graham Hough reviews the recently published Oxford Book of English Talk.

Part 2
Le Cimetière Marin is a meditation on the poem of Paul Valery. Contrapuntal, delicately dissonant, and scored for a medium-sized orchestra, it makes a promising introduction for those unacquainted with Valen's music. The work was included in one of this year's I.S.C.M. concerts in Osio, where Valen spent most of his life. From 1938 until his death last year he lived in retirement in a remote part of Western Norway. Eric Warr

Z-The Land and its Physical Potentialities by G. J. Butland, Ph.D.

Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 played by Reginald Kell (clarinet) with the Busch String Quartet on gramophone records