A lecture by Sir William Haley , K.C.M.G.
(A recording of the twelfth annual lecture of the National Book League. delivered on November 17 at the Central Hall, Westminster: previously broadcast on December 22)

Alec Whittaker (oboe)
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Kathleen Joyce (contralto) Bradbridge White (tenor)
Hervey Alan (bass)
Charles Spinks
(organ and harpsichord)
BBC Chorus
The St. Cecilia Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Fourteenth of a series of programmes

by Denis Mack Smith
Tutor of Peterhouse, Cambridge
The word ' Renaissance' has grown into an omnibus term denoting widely different, even opposing tendencies. The speaker considers the need for a fresh critical approach to the subject. His remarks are suggested by England and the Italian Renaissance by J. R. Hale.

A play by T.S. Eliot

(Sunday afternoon's recorded broadcast)

Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)