Denis Matthews (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader. David McCallum )
Conducted by Anthony Bernard
Part 1

First of two talks by Dr. A. J. Marshall
The bower birds of Australia and New Guinea, who before mating build display-grounds and decorate them with an extraordinary variety of objects, have been known to naturalists for more than a century; but it is only in recent years that progress has been made with a scientific interpretation of their behaviour. Dr. Marshall, Reader in Zoology at St. Bartholomew's Medical College, has made a special study oi their habits, which he describes in his first talk.

Part 2

Talk by John Beattie
Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford
Mr. Beattie reviews the recent book African Worlds, edited by Professor Daryll Forde , in which the beliefs and values of several African peoples are described. The speaker considers in particular the usefulness of certain viewpoints in the understanding of systems of belief and their relationship to the societies in which they are held.

Ilsa Steinova (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)

followed by an interlude at 8.50

A symbolical portrait of the manifestations and motives of violence in modern society
Written by J. Bronowski
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with music by Antony Hopkins with Tom Clarkson , Diana Maddox
Felix Felton , Frank Duncan Molly Lawson , Joyce Latham

In Nomine
Ralph Downes (organ)
The Deller Consort:
Eileen McLoughlin , Alfred Deller
Gerald English , Eric Barnee and Maurice Bevan
The London Consort of Viols::
Harry Danks , Stanley Wootton
Sylvia Putterill , Desmond Dupr Henry Revellé , Robert Donington
Programme arranged by William B. Coates

Vladimir Nabokov talks about his translations of the work of the nineteenth-century Russian poet Theodore Tyutchev