Six talks on recent research
5-The Study of Social Behaviour by Michael Argyle
Lecturer in Social Psychology in the University of Oxford
The speaker discusses some recent experiments on small social groups, in the laboratory and in industry. He shows how some of these experiments have direct practical consequences while others have led to the development of scientific theory.
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Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey GiJbert (flute) Frederick Riddle (viola)
Wilfrid Parry (piano) with ' Janet Craxton (oboe)
Michael Dobson (cor anglais)
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello;
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MARY CHANDLER, pupil of Harry Farjeon, is principal oboist of the City of Birmingham Orchestra. Her Trio, written in 1938, is in three movements: Allegro molto (with extended rhapsodic cadenzas), Andante con dolore, Allegro. EVA RUTH SPALDING studied with Leopold Auer Her Fifth Quartet, first performed in 1950, is in three movements : Con brio, Lento, Vivace. ROBIN ORR, a Scot, studied with Nadia
Boulanger and Casella. The three pastorals are settings of poems by Mary Webb. H.C-7.
Talk by Harold St. George Gray, O.B.E., F.S.A.
The speaker recalls his first excavations of the prehistoric lake villages of Glastonbury and Meare at the beginning of the century, and discusses the results of the work up to the present.
Amour d'antan: Les heures; Le colibrl; Hebe: La cigale; La derniere feuille; Apaisement; Le temps des lilas sung by Helga Mott (soprano) with Ernest Lush (piano)
A monthly review of cultural and political trends In the U.S.S.R.
Religion in the Soviet Union: an atheist offensive stepped up?
Talk by Ivan Bilibin
by Jean Prieur
Translated from the French by Rupert Gleadow
Octet in F, Op. 166 played by the Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Ronald Waller (bassoon)
Jbhn Burden (horn)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Patrick Hailing (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola) Wlllem de Mont (cello)
George Yates (double-basa)
Talk by A. Alvarez
The speaker is an English poet and cntic now studying at Princeton. He suggests that the common view of Hart Crane as ' a great failure' would be corrected by a closer examination of his lyric style. For Mr. Alvarez, he is the best American poet of the twentieth century.
English Suites
No. 2, in A minor; No. 4. in F played by Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
