by Joan Robinson, Reader in Economics in the University of Cambridge

The recent report of the Monopolies Commission on the Supply of Certain Industrial and Medical Gases drew attention to the problem of ensuring that large single-firm monopolies act in the public interest. Mrs. Robinson, a former member of the Commission, examines suggestions put forward to this end.

Maxwell Ward (viola pomposa)
Michael Mitchell (quinton)
Desmond Dupre (tenor viol)
Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba)
Arnold Ashby (cello)
Francis Baines (violone)

A group of instrumental pieces from the Mulliner Book...Thomas Tallis
A Point; Iste Confessor; Ecce tempus idoneum; Ex more docti mistico; A Point

Prelude and Fantasia a 5; Fantasia a 6; In Nomine a 5...William Byrd

Fantasia a 3; Pavan a 5; Pavan and Galliard a 6; Alman a 4; Fantasia a 3...Thomas Tomkins

Dominic de Grunne speaks about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and compares the position of women in England of the eighteenth century with that of the French. A life of Lady Mary by Dr. Robert Halsband has recently been published.

An essay in experimental radio devised by Andre Almuro and adapted by him from 'Le Journal d'une Disintoxication' by Jean Cocteau
The English production in a translation by Naomi Lewis supervised by Douglas Cleverdon

This work was first broadcast by Radio-diffusion-Television Francaise. For this English production the voices of the English readers have been superimposed on the original recordings of Andre Almuro's musique concrete.

Elisabeth Grummer (soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe

(on gramophone records)

A discussion by the Epiphany Philosophers
The Epiphany Philosophers are a group of philosophers and scientists, members of the Church of England, who investigate the matter of religious thought and practice with methods provided by contemporary science and philosophy.

Structures Book 1 (first broadcast in this country)
played by Yvonne Loriod and Pierre Boulez (two pianos)

A sequence of poems illustrating the part played by the great house in English life and the obligations of ownership

1 - 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
Read by John Glen
2 - 'To my Friend G.N. from Wrest' by Thomas Carew
Read by Derek Hart

Trio in B flat, Op. 97
played by the Robert Masters Piano Trio: Robert Masters (violin) Muriel Taylor (cello) Kinloch Anderson (piano)