BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) Conducted by Mogens Woldike

In four talks, following his recent visit to the Middle East, Edward Atiyah is giving his impressions of evolution and revolution in the Arab world. In this second talk he compares and contrasts the recent political experience of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq-the core of the Arab world.
(The recorded broadcast of July 30)
See also Thursday at 7.40

Lamar Crowson (piano)
The Kalmar Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Friedman )
Conductor, Colin Davis
Divertimento in F (K.138)
Piano Concerto in E flat (K.482)
Symphony No. 36, in C (Linz) (K.425)

Talk by Michael Oakeshott
In his new book The Public Philosophy Walter Lippmann has argued that liberal democratic government is in decline because the mass electorate-prone to Jacobinism and neglectful of self-evident political truths-has usurped the place of the governing authority. But, Professor Oakeshott comments, * we, " the people," never ask for what we have not been prompted to desire; we corrupt policy not by our own shortsighted demands but by our responsiveness to what is suggested and promised to us.' Furthermore, he adds, ' liberal democracy is sceptical politics, in which " truth" appears not as the opposite of " error " but merely as the opposite of " lies." '

Fernande Kaeser (piano)

A complete reading in French
Produced by Michel Polac
See ' Both Sides of the Microphone

Quintet in G: Joerg Demus (piano), Barylli String Quartet: on records