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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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Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Marshall

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.

Contributors

Violin:
Ernest Element
Violin:
Sylvia Cleaver
Viola:
Dorothy Hemming
Cello:
Norman Jones
Viola:
Herbert Downes
Viola:
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.

Contributors

Unknown:
Admiral Angus Nicholl

Written by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with Harold Kurtz
Cost in order of speaking:
Production by Christopher Sykes

Contributors

Written By:
Christopher Sykes
Unknown:
Harold Kurtz
Production By:
Christopher Sykes
Narrator:
Norman Shelley
Lavalette:
Michael Hordern
Count Ferrand:
Alexander Gauge
The Registrar of the Court:
John Sharp
Princesse de Vaudemont:
Betty Hardy
Madame Ney:
Patience Collier
Marshal Ney:
Valentine Dyall
Madame Hutchinson:
Joan Hart
The Duke of Wellington:
Kenneth Connor
Sir Robert Wilson:
Deryck Guyler
Christopher Hely Hutchinson, m p:
Eric Lugg
John Hely Hutchinson:
David Peel
Michael Bruce:
Michael Seavers
Madame Lavalette:
Betty Linton
Jailer:
Trevor Martin
French frontier policeman:
George de Warfaz
Monsieur de Montrond:
John Rorke
The Duke of Broglie:
Martin Starkie
Monsieur Decazes:
Heron Carvic

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.

Contributors

Novel By:
Owen Holloway

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