Rene Soames (tenor)
Donald Bridger (cor anglais)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Marta Eitler (violin)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble: Edward Walker (flute) Leon Goossens (oboe) Sidney Fell (clarinet) Ronald Waller (bassoon) John Burden (horn) Harold Jackson (trumpet) David Martin (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola) Willem de Mont (cello) James W. Merrett (double-bass)

(The Elegy is recorded)

by David Lack, F.R.S. Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford

Over the past ten years Dr. Lack and his wife have made a special study of the swifts that nest in the tower of the University Museum in Oxford. In this programme he describes some of the results of their researches on what he calls 'a very remarkable bird.'

Marina de Gabarain
(mezzo-soprano) with Julian Bream (guitar)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Five Folk Songs from South America:
Mol'e, mol'e; Rueday koson; Amorcito nuevo quisiera tener; De blanca tierra hemos venido; Tristezas me depara

by Henrik Ibsen
A radio adaptation of the stage version in English of Ibsen's dramatic poem by James Forsyth from a literal translation by Evelyn C. Ramsden
Narrator, Robert Sansom
With Stephen Murray, Fay Compton, Ursula Howells, Rowena Cooper, Emerton Court, Humphrey Morton, Patrick Godfrey, Arthur Keane, John Graham, Beatrice Kane, Ronald Sidney
Music selected by Cynthia Pughe from
Symphony No. 2 by Khachaturyan
Production by Val Gielgud
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 30)
During the interval in the performance of 'Brand' (21.20–21.30 app.)
Harald Saevernd: Galdreslatten, Op. 20, played by the Symphony Orchestra of Statsradiofonien, Denmark, conducted by Nicolai Malko on gramophone records

Seven illustrated talks by Deben Bhattacharya

In 1955 the speaker travelled from London to Calcutta recording folk and traditional music as he went.

Martindale Sidwell (organ)
From Hampstead Parish Church, London