BBC Northern Orchestra

by Edward Blishen
A monthly series of talks on current problems and thought in the educational world.

"I sometimes wonder if the size and quality of the task the secondary modem school has set itself is generally understood." Mr. Blishen speaks as one who has been teaching in secondary modern schools for the past seven years.

Stanislav Heller (harpsichord)
Vingt-Cinquieme Ordre
La Visionnaire; La Mysterieuse; La MonBambert; La Muse victorieuse; Les Ombres errantes
Vingt-Quatrieme Ordre
Les vieux Seigneurs; Les jeunes Seigneurs; Les Dards homicides; Les Guirlandes; Les Brimborions; La divine Babiche; La belle Javotte; L'Amphibie
Eighth of a series of programmes of keyboard music by Couperin

by Robert Graves
In Robert Graves's view the 'Roman contribution to civilisation' should not be taken too seriously. Those parts of it which were not of Greek were, he believes, of Etruscan origin.

Adapted by Donald Jonson and Clifford Williams from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Stephen Hero"

London String Quartet: Granville Jones (violin), Carl Pini (violin), Keith Cummings (viola). Douglas Cameron (cello)

Illustrated talk by Peter Marler of the University of Cambridge

Using a large number of recordings made during the course of his researches, the speaker analyses the language of the chaffinch and considers its function for the maintenance of the species.