Talk by Charles Shain
Speaking from an American point of view, Mr. Shain comments on the treatment accorded to Americans and the American scene by English writers in the nineteenth century.

Quartet No. 1, in A
. played by the Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)

David Willcocks talks about two recently published books: Edward Elgar , by Diana M. McVeagh , and Elgar, O.M.: a Study of a Musician, by Percy Young.

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Leader. Norris Stanley)
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
From the Town Hall, Birmingham
Part 1

An interview by Henry Mayhew
Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from Mayhew's
* London Labour and the London Poor' with Henry Webb and Carleton Hobbs

Part 2

A joke by André Gide

Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
Music by Maurice Greene
April Cantelo (soprano)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Happy ye leaves; The rolling wheele; The merry cuckow: How long shall this like dying life endure?; The laurell leafe: What guile is this?; Arion; Sweet smile
This is the first of two programmes of settings of Spenser's Amoretti by Maurice Greene (1695-1755).

Trio on popular Irish melodies played by the Rubbra-Gruenberg-Pleeth Trio