Talk by G. Buchdahl
Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History and Methods of Science. University of Melbourne
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 24)
played by Robert Collet
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
by James Hanley
Adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker
Produced by Elwyn Evans with Wyn Thomas , Nesta Harris
Sheila Huw Jones , Gwenda Williams
Moses Jones , Ieuan Rhys Williams
J. Huw Jones , R. Howell Evans
Charles Williams , Emyr Jones
Jane Ann Rowlands. Eileen Graber and Joan Hughes
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, in B flat
Violin Concerto in E
Reinhold Barchet (violin)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Conductor, Karl Miinchinger
(Recordings)
by Ronald Stevenson
In the course of this talk, Ronald Stevenson plays some of the piano pieces Busoni wrote in his youth.
Two dialogues on the Buddha and the forces of nature
Read by Denis McCarthy and Martin Starkie
The first dialogue is from the early collection of the teachings of the Buddha, the Sutta Pitaka; the second from The Questions of King Milinda, a work of the first century A.D. They were translated from the Pali by T. W. Rhys Davids.
Zuilmah Hopkins (soprano)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Talk by E. E. Rich
Professor of Imperial and Naval History in the University of Cambridge
Last autumn the Hakluyt Society published the first of four volumes of The Journals of Captain Cook. In this talk Professor Rich describes and assesses Cook's work as an explorer.
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 21)
