Francis Jackson (organ)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
From the Town Hall, Manchester
Four talks by Hessell Tiltman
Manchester Guardian
Far Eastern correspondent
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In these talks Mr. Tiltman speaks about the post-war years.
Sonatas for violin and harpsichord
No. 4; No. 5: No. 6 played by Louis Kaufman (violin)
Frederick Stone (harpsichord)
The career of a doomed king by Louis MacNeice
Ballade; Masques; Mazurka played by Walter Gieseking (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by H. N. Southern of the Bureau of Animal Population,
University of Oxford
To the ecologist studying the balance of numbers among natural communities of animals the advent of myxomatosis has provided a unique experiment. The speaker had just begun a study of the small mammals in an oak-wood when myxomatosis struck. In his talk he describes the effect of its impact and the adjustments likely to take place in 1956.
The Purcell Singers
Conductor, Imogen Hoist
A. Alvarez talks about the Collected Poems of William Empson which have recently been published.
