Benjamin Ungar (baritone)
Five talks on Liberalism
5-justification of Liberalism by Richard Wollheim Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of London
Liberalism is sometimes held to rest upon a ' public philosophy,' sometimes on scepticism. Mr. Wollheim denies both these assumptions and suggests that Liberalism is its own justification.
(The recorded broadcast of June 11)
played by Ralph Downes on the organ of the Royal Festival Hall, London
An illustrated talk by Robert Layton
Robert Layton , whose book on this nineteenth-century Swedish composer was recently published in Stockholm, discusses the originality of Berwald's style. There will be several performances of works by Berwald in the Third Programme during the next few weeks
Gordon Wharton introduces unpublished verse by Kingsley Amis, G. J. Warnock
Bernard Bergonzi who read and discuss their own poems
Piano Concerto No. 2, in B flat
Wilhelm Backhaus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Clemens Krauss on gramophone records
by Eugene J. McCarthy and August Heckscher
On the eve of the Presidential elections, two American observers review the present state of the Democratic and Republican parties. For the Democrats the speaker is Eugene J. McCarthy , Congressman for the Fourth District of Minnesota, and for the Republicans August Heckscher, Director of the Twentieth Century Fund, and formerly chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune.
by Henry James adapted for radio in three parts by Mary Hope Allen
Complete cast for the three episodes:
(Continued in next column) other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Pianist, Josephine Lee
The action takes place in London and at Medley Hall in the 801 of the last century.
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Part 1
' The Making of a Revolutionary' (The recorded broadcast of Oct. 17)
Nachtstucke played by Reginald Paul (piano)
Current questions In architecture and town planning
Stresses and Strains by Ronald Jenkins
