The Sherardian Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford gives a broadcast version of his lecture on 'The Place of Botany in the Life of a University'

Trio for flute, cello, and piano played by Gareth Morris (flute)
Florence Hooton (cello)
Ross Pratt (piano)

Talk by Colonel Laurens van der Post ,
C.B.E.
The first volume of the new Dictionary of Afrikaans has recently been published. The speaker reflects on the early struggles of the Dutch in South Africa to win acceptance for this language, and on the Afrikaans writers, teachers, and preachers among whom he grew up, in the aftermath of the Boer War.

David Galliver (tenor)
Endre Wolf (violin)
André Navarra (cello)
Halle Orchestra (Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Brahms-Haydn
Part 1

An early mountaineering photograph shows how little concession to the rigours of the new sport was made in the style of the ladies' dress
Ronald W. Clark , who has made a collection of mountaineering books and photographs and who during the last twenty years has made a close study of Alpine climbing, talks about some of the great climbing personalities of one hundred years ago.

Part 2
Symphony No. 1. in C minor.... Brahms

Being an Account by James Guthrie , Ordinary of Newgate, of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words of a Notable Highwayman who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday, April 25, 1733.
Arranged by Isla Cameron Produced by D. G. Bridson

Quartet in A (K.464) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegntund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Talk by A. J. P. Taylor

Cirandas
X6! Xo! Passarinho!; Pobre cega: A condessa; N'esta rua, n'esta rua:
0 pintor de cannahyr A canoa virou played by Harriet Cohen (piano)