Three Sonatas
F minor (L.281): D minor (L.163);
C (L.282) played by Fernando Valenti (harpsichord) on gramophone records

Talk by Donat O'Donnell
The speaker believes that Professor Maurice Merleau-Ponty's most recent book, Les Aventures de la Dialectique, marks a significant turning-point in the intellectual history of France. In an earlier work, Humanisme et Terreur, Merleau-Ponty 'put an umbrella of rationalisation over the heads of those who wished to keep their "favourable prejudices " about Russia under a rain of inconvenient facts. In his new book he takes that umbrella away.'
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 20)

Compiled and introduced by A. L. Lloyd
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Last winter A. L. Lloyd visited Bulgaria for the purpose of recording the music of the countryside. He found a rich tradition of ritual and epic balladry, work songs, lyrical songs, and instrumental dance music, remarkably well preserved, constantly added to, and performed with a degree of virtuosity uncommon in European folk music.

Quartet No. 1, in F minor, Op. 10
(1919) played by the Koeckert String Quartet:
Rudolf Koeckert (violin)
Willi Buchner (violin)
Oskar Riedl (viola) Josef Merz (cello)
This is the first of six programmes in which all Hindemith's quartets are to be played by the Koeckert String Quartet.
Quartet No. 2: February 6

A Medieval Disputation between
The Very Rev. Ian Hislop , O.P.
Defendant and The Rev. Laurence Bright , O.P.
Objector with The Very Rev. Illtud Evans , O.P. as Moderator
Given at the invitation of the National Peace Council
From Caxton Hall, London

Bronislav Gimpel (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar

Two talks on the changing economic policies of the Conservative and Labour Parties by Andrew Shonfield
Foreign Editor of the Financial Times
I-The End of Laissez-faire?
Mr. Shonfield argues that the liberal doctrines which have guided Conservative policy since 1951 may have to be reconsidered.

Music for Voices and Virginals
Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
Margaret Hodsdon (virginals)
Philip Moore (organ)
An Instrumental Ensemble
(Led by James Hutcheon )
BBC Midland Singers Conductor, John Lowe
Motet: Man dreame no more Dialogue: At her faire hands Virginals:
Alman Ayres : Ah. were she pitiful; Sing. love is blind; Now. Robin. laugh and sing
Virginals: The fall of the leaf Ayre: Locke up. fair lids Virginals: The primrose
Anthems: 0 God that no time doest despise; 0 let me at thy footstool fall

Chosen and introduced by Frank Kermode
Read by Anthony Jacobs
The sonnets to be read are nearly all from the last sixty or so of the 154 that survive. They are not the sonnets usually found in anthologies.