Talk by Diana Poulton with illustrations sung by the Deller Consort

by Lope de Vega
Translated by W. S. Merwin
Production by Frederick Bradnum

Ginia Davis (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader,Paul Beard )
Conducted by Pierre Monteux
Part 1

Talk by Norman Birnbaum
Lecturer at the London School of Economics
In a recently published book entitled Protestant, Catholic, Jew, an American writer, Will Herberg, has analysed the present religious revival in the United States. In this talk Norman Birnbaum, an American sociologist, reviews Mr. Herberg's book and gives his own evaluation of some current trends in American religious experience against the background of material prosperity.

Part 2

Poems by A. D. Hope , James McAuley and Judith Wright
Chosen and introduced by Robert Brissenden
Readers:
Kim Corcoran , Gordon Gow and Ruth Barratt

Quartet in F, Op. 96 played by the Netherlands String Quartet:
Nap de Klijn Jaap Schroder
Paul Godwin , Carel Boomkamp

In the first of a series of four talks Edward Hyams describes his adventures in planting and tending a tree of ' enchanting beauty,' arbutus unedo.