Talk by R. H. Richens Member of the Cambridge
Language Research Unit
Serious work on mechanical translation started in 1948 when A. D. Booth of Birkbeck College, London, and R. H. Richens at Cambridge began an investigation of mechanical procedures for the grammatical analysis of inflected words. Now a research group at Cambridge is studying the syntactical and semantic problems involved in machine translation. (The recorded broadcast of March 18)
Second of three talks

Erling Blondal Bengtsson (cello)
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

Quartet in D. Op. 20 No. 4 Quartet in C. Op. 76 No. I played by the Allegri String Quartet:
Ell Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Last of six programmes of string quartets by Haydn followed by an interlude at 8.50

Talk by Henry Fosbrooke
Director of the Rhodes-Livingstone
Institute, Lusaka
' Many of Africa's greatest difficulties arise from the fact that her indigenous people tend to live in the wrong places.' Mr. Fosbrooke analyses the reasons why large areas of potentially good farming land in southern Tanganyika are sparsely inhabited in spite of population pressure in the north, and illustrates the combination of studies which he believes might throw light on similar apparently inexplicable situations.

A strip cartoon for sound
Written for broadcasting by Edward Hyams
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall Other Lilliputian, Blefuscan, American, Australian, and British characters played by Geoffrey Wincott,
Wilfred Babbage Basil Jones, John Glyn - Jones, Gerik Sehjelderup Richard Beale Peter Mannering,
Richard Mayes, and Bruce Stewart

Mass for three voices sung by the Deller Consort:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)

A monthly review of current questions in architecture and town planning A Dutch New Town Experiment by J. M. Richards
The new town of Emmen in north-eastern Holland had its origins in the decline of the local peat-digging industry and the need to foster alternative employment. Mr. Richards, who visited it recently, makes a comparison with English new towns with regard both to the problems and the architects' solutions.
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 9)