Talk by Asa Briggs
Reader in Recent Social and Economic History
In the University of Oxford
Mr. Briggs considers the various types of strike and shows how objectives and tactics have changed during the course of the present century.

Ayres for four voices
The Golden Age Singers:
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Elizabeth Osborn (soprano)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde
Julian Bream (lute)
The London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (tenor viol)
Desmond Dupre (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Weep you no more, sad fountains; My thoughts are wing'd with hopes; Clear or cloudy; Dialogue, Come when I call; Where sin sore wounding; Thou mighty God; Now, oh now I needs must part

A talk by Percy Young about Elgar's unfinished opera
Illustrations by John Kentish (tenor)
Arnold Matters (baritone)
Josephine Lee (piano)
In his last years Elgar was engaged on an opera based on Ben Jonson 's play The Devil is an Ass. The speaker has had access to the manuscript. I

Peter Wallfisch (piano)

by Walt Whitman
A Song of Myself was first published on July 4, 1855. It was printed as an untitled introduction to the first edition of Leaves of Grass. For this reading the poem has been cut by about a third. The programme is in two parts.
During the interval (8.35-8.45 app.):
Aaron Copland
Quiet City played by the Eastman-Rochester
Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Howard Hanson on gramophone records

with an introduction by Jean Cocteau on gramophone records
Overture (Germaine Tailleferre ); and Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude (Honegger): Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Georges
Tzipine
Sécheresses (Poulenc):
Elizabeth Brasseur Choir , Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Georges Tzipine
Le printemps au fond de la mer
(Louis Durey): Denise Duval (soprano). Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Georges Tzipine
Printemps (Auric): Yvonne Printemps
(soprano), with orchestra conducted by Marcel Cariven
Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud): Paris
Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Georges Tzipine

A programme of readings from the Sermons and Collations of Meister Eckhart , the fourteenth-century German mystic. The selections are introduced by the Rev. Charles Smith , Vicar of Heatherycleugh-in-Weardale.
Reader, Norman Shelley

Quartet in D, Op. 23 played by the Robert Masters Piano Quartet