Andante for strings
Concerto for piano and orchestra played by Lucette Dcscaves (piano) l'Orchestre du Theatre des Champs-Elysees
Conducted by Ernest Bour on gramophone records

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 recorded broadcast of October 2)

A secular oratorio in three acts
Words by Congreve
Music by Handel
Cast in order of singing:
Katharine Thomson (harpsichord)
Birmingham University Special Choir
The Boyd Neel Orchestra (Leader. Erich Gruenberg )
Conducted BY ANTHONY LEWIS
From the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, by permission of the Trustees
ACT 1
Third of a series of four programmes of dramatic works by Handel arranged by Anthony Lewis

Talk by John Summerson
Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum
The vanished palace of Theobalds in Hertfordshire built by Lord Burghley in 1564-85 was one of the greatest of Elizabethan houses and architecturally perhaps the most influential of all. Mr. Summerson, who has been working on a reconstruction of the house, describes some of the results of his investigations.

Act 2

The Noble Art of Hawking
Pierre Schneider talks about the various manifestations of the French passion for eloquence

Act 3

Music and Social Life
Last of three illustrated talks by John Blacking on the structure of folk music and its relationship to social life, with examples from Asia, Africa, and Australasia.

(Philomcna's Tale on the Fourth Day)
Fourth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620, arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall

played by André Marchal
From St. Peter's, Eaton Square,
London
Programme introduced by Felix Aprahamian