A symposium by three scholars in review of Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
The decipherment by the late Michael Ventris of the Linear B script on the tablets from Knossos, Pylos, and Mycenae was not only a notable decoding: such translation of the documents as is possible has illuminated important and hitherto obscure aspects of the history, social organisation, and literature of the early Aegean world. These are respectively discussed by Sinclair Hood; Moses I. Finley; and Denys Page.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Part 1
Free Church and English Community
The social structure of industrial England in the nineteenth century was raised upon its industry and its religion. The industry was its matter and the Chapel was its form.
Fourth of five programmes
Part 2
by J. G. Bullocke, Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Two hundred years ago this week Admiral John Byng was 'shot to death' on board H.M.S. Monarque in Portsmouth harbour. Did he deserve to die? Was he executed, as Candide put it, 'pour encourager les autres'? Or was he a political scapegoat? Professor Bullocke reassesses the naval evidence and offers his own verdict.
Nuits d'Ete
Villanelle; Le spectre de la rose;
Sur les lagunes; Absence;
Au cimetiere; L'lle inconnue
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Munch on gramophone records followed by
by Eugene Ionesco
(Monday's recorded broadcast)
Second of three programmes.
(BBC recording)
(Last programme: March 20)
by Michael Sullivan
The speaker recently made a tour of the archaeological remains of Indo-China as part of his work of building up the new art museum of the University of Malaya.
