Walter Lear (saxophone)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader. Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky

A group of seven talks
I-War and History by N. H. Gibbs
Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of Oxford
Reviewing the growth of the liberal tradition of British historiography during the past century, Professor Gibbs protests that ' we have too often simply labelled war an evil without analysing its nature; we have avoided the study of the history of war because we have considered war " bad." But this,' he adds, ' is not the way of wisdom in any form of human experience.'

with harp accompaniment
Myra Verney (soprano)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
(Continued in next column)

A monthly report on the arts. science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including an account by Peter Heyworth of the latest Viennese productions of Aïda, Don Giovanni , and Die Frau ohne Schatlen ; a talk bv Edwin Morgan , of the Department of English at Glasgow University, on recent trends in Russian poetry; and a comment on two essays by contemporary Spanish biologists.

Duchess of Wellington
Read by the author
The poems are spoken with the clavichord played by Raymond Barnett

Prelude and Fugue in B minor played by George Miles (organ)
From St. Peter's Church, Harborne

A series of five talks
3-Metaphysics and History by Patrick Gardiner
Lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford
' We might think of metaphysical theories ot history as being in some respects like diagrams ... Like diagrams these theories may be illuminating and suggestive,' but they must not be supposed to comprehend or account for all history.

by J. R. R. Tolkien
A radio adaptation in six parts from Volume 1 of "The Lord of the Rings"

Quartet No. 6. in D (D.74)
Quartet No. 9. in B flat (D.112) played by the Lyra String Quartet:
Granville Casey. John Crossan
John Linn , John McInulty

The Soviet Scene by Archie Clow , D.Sc., F.R.S.E. who recently visited the U.S.S.R. as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.