Seven Songs on poems by Rilke ViKilie ; Aus einem April; Ernste Stundet Immer wieder; Der Panther; Liebeslicd; Der Ast von Baum Gottes
Willy Berling (baritone)
Walter Faith (piano)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hessischer Rundfunk)

Talk by Guido Pontecorvo Ph.D., F.R.S.
Reader in Genetics,
University of Glasgow
Dr. Pontecorvo explains why, till recently, micro-organisms were neglected by geneticists. He goes on to show that they are now providing a fruitful field for study with possible industrial applications.
(The recorded broadcast of April 29)

Serenade in B flat (K.361) for thirteen wind instruments played by the Wind Ensemble of the RIAS Orchestra. Berlin on gramophone records

Owen Holloway speaks about the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun , who died in 1952. A new translation of Hamsun's novel Pan has recently been published.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Zino Francescatti (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1

A sequence of poems illustrating the part played by the great house in English life and the obligations of ownership.
1— 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
Read by John Glen
2—' To my friend G.N. from Wrest' by Thomas Carew
Read by Derek Hart

Part 2
The second part of this concert is also being broadcast in the Scottish Home Service

A Barbados dialogue
Adapted for radio by Norman Hudis from George Lamming 's novel
' In the Castle of My Skin '
Narrator, A. E. T. Henry Produced by R. D. Smith
(The recorded broadcast of June 27)

Ventsislav Yankoff (piano)