Talk by Lucie. Manen
More than a century ago Alessandro Busti published what he claimed to be the only authoritative collection of vocal exercises taught in the Collegio Reale di Napoli. The late Dr. George Cathcart, who himself studied at the Neapolitan School, believed that Busti's exercises contained the secret of bel canto and that they were well known to Verdi, who based his vocal writing on the technique they taught. Lucie Manen's own researches support Dr. Cathcart's belief.

A strip cartoon for sound by Edward Hyams
followed by an interlude at 7.45

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Part 1

Talk by Edward Atiyah
Mr. Atiyah recently paid a visit to the British-protected States of the Persian Gulf. In this talk he considers the dilemmas that now face us in this region of oil wealth and emergent nationalism.

Part 2

A talk on Buddhism by Edward Conze, Ph.D .
Buddhists are not generally prepared to be dogmatic about the historical existence of the Buddha, but they will normally show respect towards anything that purports to be a relic from the Buddha's life on earth. Dr. Conze sees the solution of this apparent paradox in the Buddhist attitude to historical fact and sensory experience.

Introduced by Edwin Morgan

Mass for four voices sung by the Deller Consort:
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Gerald English (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)

A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment