A group of six talks by A. J. P Taylor
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford
I-The Radical Tradition:
Fox, Paine, and Cobbett
Symphony No. 9, in C played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler on gramophone records
Talk by E. E. Rich
Professor of Imperial and Naval History
In the University of Cambridge
In the second of his two talks Professor Rich discusses the problem of the canals and his own tour of them.
A theological eclogue on Gerard Manley Hopkins by George Barker
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
George Barker writes: What I have tried to do in The Gardens of Altering Eros is to write about the duality of the poet and the priest in Gerard Hopkins. And in the hope of eliciting this duality more clearly I have written an eclogue, or a dialogue, between Hopkins and the poet who" is in many ways his opposite-Baudelaire: seeing in Baudelaire a symbol of spiritual pride and its despair, and in Hopkins the conformities of a possible new humility.'
A comic opera in one act
A monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
The New Development in Literature
Manya Harari , who visited Russia last autumn, speaks about some recent novels and about Russian taste in foreign literature.
Quartet in E, Op. 80 played by the Aeolian String Quartet:
Sydney Humphreys , Trevor Williams
Watson Forbes , John Moore
Second of ten programmes of Dvorak's string quartets
Illustrated talk by Frank Pelleg
Besides discussing some of the Forty-eight* the speaker analyses and plays (on the harpsichord) Bach's Toccata in D.