Maria Lidka (violin)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

A report on the Soviet point of view as expressed recently in the Soviet Press and broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC foreign news department

A sequence of lyrics by Archibald MacLeish with James McKechnie , Cecil Bellamy
Norman Claridge , Edwina Rendell
Introduced by D. G. Bridson
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 7)

Canons for three tenors
La lezione: Sol, sol; Vieni nel bosch etto; Se sarete bona; Perflda Clorl :
Perche; Occhi. stelle mortali; Pur nel sonno; Evviva Bacco; Cari amtcl ; Cessa; In queste carte; Mon nom sung by John Boulter , Edgar Fleet and Kevin Miller
Directed and introduced by Richard Wood

Six talks by A. J. P. Taylor
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
5-The Great War and the Great Peace
These talks are a broadcast version of the Ford Lectures delivered in Oxford earlier this year. They deal with the radical or left-wing critics of British foreign policy from the French Revolution to the present day. The speaker challenges the conventional view of the continuity of British foreign policy.

An episode in the career of Sir Thomas Phillipps Written and narrated by A. N. L. Munby
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
In 1853 two of the most extraordinary characters of the nineteenth century came into contact with each other. Sir
Thomas Phillipps , choleric, fanatical, dedicated to the pursuit of learning, was the owner of the greatest collection of manuscripts ever brought together by one man; Constantine Simonides was a Greek whose impudent forgeries of ancient manuscripts deceived some of the most eminent scholars of his day. By good fortune the meeting of the two men is amply documented in contemporary letters and diaries, which tell the story of how the baronet bought from the forger what he believed to be the oldest Homeric manuscript in the world, a survival from the celebrated library at Alexandria.
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 25)

String Sextet, Op. 43 played by The Macgibbon String Quartet: Margot Macgibbon. Lorraine du Val
Jean Stewart , Lilly Phillips Keith Cummings (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)

Second of two talks by Fritz Rothschild
Mr. Rothschild's book on Bach, The Lost Tradition, aroused widespread comment. He is now working on the conventions of tempo, time signatures, and accentuation accepted by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 4)

played by C. H. Trevor