Three talks by William Haas
Lecturer in German at University College, Cardiff
2-Closing the Gap
The gap between the study of sounds and the study of meaning in language is being closed as the method of analysis proves applicable to both. It appears at the same time that linguistic methods have become more akin to the familiar procedures of literary criticism.

The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon) Richard Walton (trumpet)
Jean Pougnet (violin) William Pleeth (cello) Wilfrid Parry (piano)

by William Rowan , D.SC.
Professor of Zoology
In the University of Alberta
Hudson's Bay Company records going back some two hundred years reveal an almost clockwork-like fluctuation in the numbers of fur-bearing animals in northern Canada. Rabbit populations ' cycle in the same way, as also do several animals introduced by man. Professor Rowan describes his studies of these animals and speculates as to the cause of ' cycling.'

Translated and freely adapted from Johann Nestroy's farce
' Freiheit in Krahwinkel ' by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch ,
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column)
Other parts plaved by Patrick Westwood. Hamilton Dyce
John Gabriel , and Frank Tickle
Singers:
Robert Rietty and Alan Reid with the BBC Chorus
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston and directed by Patrick Savill Production by Norman Wright

Martha Lipton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Parti

First of two talks on Dante's Divine Comedy by Colin Hardie
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford
In this talk Colin Hardie puts forward his views as to when Dante wrote the Divine Comedy and explains how this matters to its interpretation.

Part 2

and two other new ballads written and read by William Plomer

Sonata No. 3, in F minor played by Robert Goldsand (piano) on gramophone records