Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Talk by Kurt Mendelssohn , F.R.S. of the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
In the neighbourhood of absolute zero, strange effects, unobserved anywhere else on the earth, make their appearance: electric currents flow without resistance, liquids climb out of their containers. Dr. Mendelssohn describes these phenomena and suggests that they imply a new state of aggregation of matter.
(The recorded broadcast of July 2)
(Leader. Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
A report on the Soviet point of view as expressed recently in the Soviet Press and broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC foreign news department
Nina Milkina (fortepiano)
No. 6
A monthly programme of comment and observation
Speakers:
William Empson
' Changing Opinion on Double
Meaning in Poetry '
Donald Davie
' Towards a Didactic Poetry '
Kenneth Young
' The Example of Ford Madox Ford '
Alfred Alvarez
' The Writer in the University '
A Dublin perambulation, in the course of which W. R. Rodgers recalls some notable talkers and visits a certain party
(The recorded broadcast of April 26)
A survey of Spanish music prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter
2-Music from the Llibre Vermeil
A selection of Cants dels Romeus, or medieval pilgrims' songs, from the Codex in the possession of the Monastery of Montserrat, recorded in the monastery by boys of Montserrat Choir School (with instrumental acompaniment), directed by Padre David Pujol. Stella splendens; Los set goigs; Mariam matrem; Cuncti simus; Imperayritz de la civtat joyosa; Polorum regina: Ad mortem festinamus; 0 Virgo splendens
Introduced by Roberto Gerhard
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 8)
Talk by William Hayes
Head of the Department of Egyptology in the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Dr. Hayes came to this country recently from Egypt, where he has been examining the finds made by Egyptian archaeologists during the past few months. He gives his views of the ' boats of Cheops,' the Third Dynasty burial at Saqqara, the temple-palace of Seti I at Abydos, and an inscription at Karnak which he regards as more interesting than any of these.
(The recorded broadcast of August 21)