The Purcell Singers
Conductor, Imogen Holst

Talk by George Allen, Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford

In a recent talk Kenneth Galbraith suggested that much economic thinking, especially among liberals, is the result of social nostalgia. Mr. Allen attributes much of Professor Galbraith's thinking to 'social megalomania.'
(BBC recording)

Rene Soames (tenor)
Harvey Phillips String Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Bean )
Conductor, Harvey Phillips

Talk by Monica Wilson Professor of Anthropology.
University of Cape Town
Twenty years ago Monica Wilson lived among and studied the Nyakyusa people of Nyasaland; she returned last year to find many changes, not least in the field of religious and moral beliefs. She speaks about some of the difficulties that arise in the change from paganism to Christianity, and the ways in which the people are meeting them.
followed by an interlude at 8.20

by Schiller
Translated by Joseph Mellish
Adapted for radio and produced by Julius Gellner
Music composed by Roberto Gerhard

Traume am Kamin, Op. 143 played by Celia Arieli (piano)

A talk by Vladimir Nabokov on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Vladimir Nabokov , who has recently translated this poem into English, explains why, in a conflict between rhyme and reason, he chooses reason.