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by Michael Sullivan
Lecturer in Art in the University of Malaya
The famous Khmer temples at Angkor in Cambodia are only the best known of a large number of ancient sites lying half hidden in the thick jungle of southern Indo-China. Between about 800 and 1300 A.D. each successive Khmer ruler built for himself a gigantic shrine as the centre of his own capital. ' I could not help thinking of the Khmer Empire impoverished in the creating of these colossal buildings, of men taken from the soil ... ' the speaker says. He has recently made a tour of the archaeological remains of Indo-China as part of his work of building up the new Art Museum of the University of Malaya.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Sullivan

An anthology of recent verse
The programme includes contributions from Lawrence Durrell , Vernon Watkins , Professor I. A. Richards , John Wain , and Mairi Maclnnes who read their own poems.
(The recorded broadcast of October 5)

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Unknown:
Lawrence Durrell
Unknown:
Vernon Watkins
Unknown:
Professor I. A. Richards
Unknown:
John Wain
Unknown:
Mairi MacLnnes

The Motion: 'This House would abolish the Third Programme'
Proposed by: Mr. Jeremy Lever
University College, Oxford
Librarian, Oxford Union Society
Mr. Noel Marshall
St. John's College, Cambridge
Vice-President of the Cambridge Union Society
Sir Compton Mackenzie, O.B.E.
Magdalen College, Oxford
Opposed by: Mr. Kenneth Post
St. John's College, Cambridge
President of the Cambridge Union Society
Mr. Stuart Griffiths
Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor D. W. Brogan
Balliol and Peterhouse
In the Chair: Mr. Edmund Ions, Merton College, President of the Oxford Union Society
Commentary during the Division of the House by Henry Riddell
There will be short speeches from the floor of the House by five members from each Union Society.
From the Oxford Union

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Unknown:
Henry Riddell

Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Fruhling ubers Jahr; Ganymed; Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt; Ein Standchen Euch zu bringen; Wenn du mich mit den Augen; Geselle, woll'n wir uns in Kutten hullen; Hoffanig: seid ihr, schones Kind; Im Fruhling; Der Gartner; Nun wandre, Maria.

Contributors

Tenor:
Peter Pears
Piano:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Ein Standchen

Third Programme

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