Talk by Douglas Grant
It was Dr. Johnson who said that he would as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else.' New light is thrown on Smart's poetry by W. H Bond 's recently published edition of Jubilate Agno which reveals that this apparently mad poem has in fact an overriding poetic logic: it has the antiphonal or responsive character of Hebrew poetry.
The talk is followed by a reading from Jubilate Agno by Hugh Burden and Felix Felton

(sung in the original French)
The action takes place in Touraine at the time of the Crusades
Act 1
Outside the main gate of the castle of Formoutiers

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley speaks about the ' minor ' theatres in the eighteen-thirties when Mr. Wopsle, the parish clerk of Great Expectations, turned actor in middle-age and played Hamlet.

Act 2
Inside the castle of Formoutiera

Talk by Rabbi Dr. Ignaz Maybaum on the Russian philosopher of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Solovyov.

Quartet in D (K.499) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Sehidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 8)

Talk by J.B. Ward Perkins, Director of the British School at Rome

The great megalithic buildings of Malta and her sister-island Gozo have for many years Doth excited and frustrated speculation about the prehistoric settlement of the island in the second and third millennia B.C. In this talk Mr. Ward Perkins speaks about these monuments and the problems they present.
(The recorded broadcast of May 23)
First of three talks

Theme and Variations: The Four
Temperaments (Hindemith): with Lukas Foss (piano)
Triptych for string orchestra (
Alexander Tansman ) on gramophone records