A series of talks on four controversial ways of regulating trade
3—Level Tenderingby Ian Bowen
Professor of Economics in the University of Hull
Collusion among firms bidding for contracts has recently attracted much criticism (together with some influential support). Professor Bowen believes that such collusion harms both the building industry and the public in the long run.
(The recorded broadcast of Aug. 25)
Quintet played by Bernard Walton (clarinet)
Cecil James (bassoon)
Granville Jones (violin)
Douglas Cameron (cello)
Henry Bronkhurst (piano)
Illustrated talk by Heinz Arnold
Baroque or ' neo-classic ' tone-quality has been an attribute of many organs built in America during the past twenty-five years. Dr. Arnold, who is chapel organist at Stephen's College, Columbia, Missouri, illustrates his talk with records of both large and small organs.
Four Eluard poems, and part of ' Le Musee Grevin ' by Aragon, read by Sylvia Monfort and Daniel Gelin
Translations by Frances Cornford , Naomi Lewis , and John Petrie , read by Mary Wimbush and Stephen Murray This is the seventh of a group of eight programmes compiled by Rayner Heppen stall from the personal choices of four leading French actors and actresses.
Annie Fischer (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
Tragic Overture
Piano Concerto No. 2, in B flat
Talk by Stanley Rubinstein
Are solicitors gentlemen? If so, why?
Part 2
Symphony No. 2, in D
Talk by Morris Carstairs
The speaker, who is both psychologist and anthropologist, has made an intensive study of personality development in Hindu society and believes that some of his observations may contribute to an explanation of the origin and nature of national characteristics in general
Watson Forbes (viola)
Alan Richardson (piano)
York Bowen's second Viola Sonata
(1911), like his first, is dedicated to Lionel Tertis. It is in three movements:
Allegro assai, Grave, and Allegro giocoso. Hindemith's Sonata, composed in 1939, is in four movements: Breit mit Kraft, Sehr lebhaft, Phantasie, and Leicht bewegt (theme with two variations).
Two talks by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1-The Theology
Aeschylus, during the last hundred years, has acquired the reputation of an advanced thinker in morals and religion. In these talks Mr. Lloyd-Jones uses the evidence of certain passages in the Oresteia to suggest that this reputation may be exaggerated.