by Wyndham Lewis
Incidental music composed by Walter Goehr
Produced by D. G. Bridson
(The recorded broadcast of July 18)
Wyndham Lewis is one of those rare people who can claim pre-eminence in two different arts. As the founder of Vorticism, he takes his place in the history of modern painting; as the author of Tarr, he has been one of the formative influences in the evolution of the modern novel.
Tarr is the work of a visual artist who also happens to be a brilliant handler of words. The hero of the novel, Sorbert Tarr, is himself a visual artist. But
Tarr is not a novel about artists: it is a novel about people. The fact that most of the characters in Tarr are engaged in painting is only incidental to the story: they could equally well be engaged in any other creative occupation. What is important is the fact that their story is told by a writer who is himself endowed with a painter's eye. D.G.B.

A bucolic tragedy in one act by Joseph Gregor
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German)
and , , , and Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Hamburg
(Chorus-Master, Max Thurn)
CONDUCTED BY ARTHUR GRUEBER
SCENE: Near Peneios' hut by the river of the same name
(Recording made available by courtesy of Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
' Ariadne auf Naxos ': January 27

A talk by Sir John E. Neale , F.B.A., on the condemnation of Mary Queen of Scots in the light of new evidence

Unpublished poetry by W. H. Auden , Elizabeth Jennings , Quintin Stevenson , Christopher Levenson , and Owen Leeming
Chosen and introduced by C. A. Trypanis
Read by Beth Boyd and Peter Redgrove
Quintin Stevenson and Owen Leeming read their own poems

Ruth Dyson (harpsichord)
The Riddick String Orchestra
(Leader. Vera Kantrovitch )
Conductor, Kathleen Riddick

[Starring] Mary O'Farrell and J.G. Devlin
A new play for broadcasting by Samuel Beckett
Production by Donald McWhinnie
To be repeated on Saturday at 6.55
Donald McWhinnie writes on Page 4

Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Liverpool Chamber Music Group
(Leader, Henry Datyner ) Director, Fritz Spiegl
(original version)