John Francis (flute)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Albert Chasey (violin) Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)

Talk by Captain Cyril Falls
Captain Falls, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of Oxford, considers the judgments of history on the Earl of Essex and his circle, the Protestant ' War Party ' at the court of Elizabeth I.

Gordon Clinton (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
Easter; I got me flowers; Love bade me welcome; The Call; Antiphon Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs were first performed at the Worcester Festival of 1911. They are settings of poems by George Herbert , the seventeenth-century divine.

Talk by T. S. Eliot , o.M.
Mr. Eliot examines The elements whidh give European litera-ture an essential unity — tracing them to their origins in Greece, Rome, 'and Israel—and asks uwo questions: Is this unity threatened today? Why should it be worth preserving?
(: originally broadcast on October 13 in the BBC's European Service at the suggestion of the Central and Eastern Europe Commission)

Part 2

Illustrated talk by Henry Boys
Busoni's Fantasia Contrappumistica is to be broadcast tomorrow at 10.0 p.m.

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Organ Sonatas: No. 2 (1937); No. 3 (1940) played by Robert Noehren

(on gramophone records)