W. W. Robson speaks about some of the minor works of Herman Melville-Benito Cereno , Bartleby the Scrivener, and The Confidence Man-as examples of the successful use of symbolism in prose fiction.
(The recorded broadcast of June 1)

Mary Grierson (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra (Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte

Talk by Darsie Gillie Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
The years 1940-1944, the years of the Vichy regime, are an uneasy memory in the minds of most Frenchmen. After the Liberation it seemed to many people easy enough to label as traitors the Vichy Government and all who served under it; but this has proved an impossible attitude to sustain. Mr. Gillie, who thinks the time has come for a reassessment, discusses in this connection the recently published Histoire de Vichy by Robert Aron and Georgette Elgey.

A ballad-opera for broadcasting
Words by H.A.L. Craig
Music by William Alwyn
Production by Douglas Cleverdon (who writes on page 4)
The skipping song recorded by children of the Holy Faith Convent, Coombe, Dublin
Sinfonia of London Orchestra (Leader, Leonard Hirsch) with the BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Alan G. Melville)
Conducted by Muir Mathieson
Repetiteur, Douglas Gamley

A comedy by Aristophanes

Sonata in F: played by Albert Chasey (violin) Leslie Chasey (piano)

This is the third of four talks, following his recent visit to the Middle East, in which Edward Atiyah is giving his impressions of evolution and revolution in the Arab world. Having observed the development of agricultural and industrial projects, he comments on the various ways in which the economic life of the Arab. countries is being transformed.
(The recorded broadcast of August 4)