A Study in Cross-Purposes
Second of three talks by Stephen Toulmin
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science in the University of Oxford
Symphony No. 3. in G. for string orchestra (Jean Rivier): French National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Roger Desormiere
Suite in F (Roussel): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch on gramophone recorda
Second of two talks by 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 tha-t 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 of their habits, and ir. his second talk he describes these new developnacAtc.
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Quintet in B flat (K.46) played by the Element Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Sylvia Cleaver (violin)
Dorothy Hemming (viola)
Norman Jones (cello) with Herbert Downes (viola)
Second of seven programmes in Which all Mozart's string quintets are being played by the Element Quartet and Herbert Downes.
A talk on NATO- by Rear-Admiral Angus Nicholl
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, whose fifth anniversary is being celebrated this week, has made great progress since April 4, 1949. But its progress has not been uniform, and in this talk Rear-Admi,ral Nicholl considers some of the difficulties the organisation has still to overcome.
Goldberg Variations played by Frank Pelleg (harpsichord)
Fifth of six programmes
Written by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with Harold Kurtz
Cost in order of speaking:
Production by Christopher Sykes
GinetteMartenot (ondesMartenot)
Michael Krein (alto saxophone)
The Francis Chagrin
Chamber Ensemble
Director, Francis Chagrin
Four talks on the Novel by Owen Holloway
1-The Novel and the Private Life
In these four talks Mr. Holloway will consider the techniques that mark out the novel from the other literary arts. He begins by describing the novel as a product of the baroque revolution which, four centuries ago, first awakened interest n the impression made on the public by works of art.