Speakers:
G. S. Fraser
' Reviewers and Critics
C.A. Trypanis
'Poetry, Public or Oblique'
Edwin Morgan ,
' Versification in Recent Poetry
Owen Holloway
' The Novel: Art or Document?
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 17)
Sonata No. 1 (1926)
Sonata No. 2 (1940) played by Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Celia Arieli (piano)
The Curious History of Maize
Talk by Edward Hyams
There is much in the contention that all high civilisations have been founded on a cereal plant. In his talk Edward Hyams tries to trace to its origins a cereal which is the second most important of all economic plants and an active partner in civilisation in almost every country in the world.
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From Peterborough Cathedral
(in association with Peterborough Arts Council)
A play in three acts by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Miriam John
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
(Sunday afternoon's recorded broadcast)
The Singers in Consort under the direction of Richard Wood sing rounds and catches from
Ravenscroft's ' Pammelia ' and canons by Haydn
The Two Kingdoms by the Rev. E. G. Rupp
Last of four talks