[Starring] Michael Hordern and Joan Hart
Preceded by a short introduction by Peter Watts

Scene: Calverley Hall in Yorkshire, 1605

Sonata in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2
Sonata in D, Op. 102 No. 2

Played by Janos Starker (cello), Livia Rev (piano)
(BBC recording)
(Sonata in A, Op.69: May 4)

A group of programmes about their impact on the ancient world
Much controversy still persists about our Indo-European ancestors, their origins, dispersal, and the character of the various societies they founded. New light has been shed on these questions in recent years through linguistic studies and archaeological field-work.
7-A Luwian Settlement. some new evidence from Anatolia by Seton Lloyd
Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara

Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Peter Graeme (oboe)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Terence Weil (cello)
Clifton Helliwell (harpsichord)

Cantata No. 160: Ich weiss, dass mein Erloser lebt (attrib. Telemann).
Cantata No. 189: Meine Seele rtihmt und preist

(BBC recording)

by Jean-Louis Barrault
A shortened version of a lecture given in French at the Institute of Contemporary Arts last December.

Impressions d'ltalie played by the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Conducted by Albert Wolff

(on gramophone records)

A study of Tu Fu by Hugh Gordon Porteus

Of T'ang poets the most revered in China are the three eighth-century figures, Tu Fu, Li T'ai Po, and Po Chu-I. If Tu Fu is less known in the West this is no doubt because he has not yet found a translator to do him full justice.

Gwendolen Mason (harp) Jack Brymer (basset-horn) Walter Lear (basset-horn) Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)

(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 31)