4—Fantasies and Iballanalte Songa
Hugues Cuemod (tenor)
Hermann Leeb (lute)
A series of nine programmes arranged by Thurston Dart and David Lumsden

Two talks by Ian Stephens
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
1—Pakistan
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Roger Lord (oboe)
The Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gaibarro (cedlo)

Talk by Sir George Thomson , F.R.S.
Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Sir George Thomson explains the principles on which the hydrogen bomb has been developed and assesses the significance of such other developments as the cobalt bomb.

Four Last Songs
Frtthling; September;
Beta Sohlafengehen; Im Abendrot
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) with the Philharmomia Orchestra
Conducted by Otto Ackermann on gramophone records

No. 3
A monthly programme of comment and observation
Speakers:
Stephen Spender
' A Reply to Criticism'
Kingsley Amis
' In Defence of Dons '
Anthony Quinton
' Travel Books '
Anthony Hartley
' The Criticism of Poetry

A verse extravaganza by Catherine Duncan and Marion Michelle with music by Norman Forber Kay
Production by Christopher Sykea

Louis Kaufman (violin)
The Leighton Lucas Orchestra
(Leader. Ronald Good )
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
Sauguet's Concerto d'Orphee, commissioned jointly by Baden-Baden Radio Orchestra and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, was written in 1952-3 with Louis Kaufman in mind as the soloist. The poetic idea behind the work is the legend of Orpheus charming nature and men with his music, Orpheus being represented by the solo violin.
Barbara Pentland is a lecturer in music at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her Second Symphony was commissioned by the Youth Music League for the Vancouver Junior Symphony Orchestra and was completed in 1950. H.R.

The Diffusion of Garden and Orchard Fruits
Talk by Edward Hyams
The fruits which we take for granted in our orchards and gardens are artifacts -and mostly of oriental origin. The speaker deals with the ancient history and long journeyings of the principal fruits cultivated in Britain.