Talk by Julius Lewin , LL.B.
Senior Lecturer in Native Law and Administration,
Witwatersrand University

The Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola)
Francisco Gabarro (cello)

A series of five talks recounting some curious vicissitudes in the history of scholarship and letters, and illustrating the attitude of different centuries towards learned invention and forgery.
I-Antiquarian Forgery in the Renaissance by Charles Mitchell
Why did respectable Renaissance antiquaries like to fake antiques? Mr. Mitchell describes the aims and personalities of some Renaissance collectors of inscriptions, and contrasts their view of forgery and authenticity with that of modern scholars.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Halle Orchestra
(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
From the Town Hall, Cheltenham
Part 1

Five unpublished poems
Introduced by Evelyn Hardy
Read by C. Day Lewis

Part 2

A fragmentary comedy by Menander
Translated and completed by Gilbert Murray
Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Characters in order of speaking:
The action takes place in a street in Corinth in the fourth century B.C.
Produced by Charles Lefeaux Introduced by Gilbert Murray

Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)