Readings from recent volumes of verse
Introduced by Roy Fuller
In this programme Mr. Fuller talks about Poems 1943-1956 by Richard Wilbur , The Sinai Sort by Norman MacCaig , Devil, Maggot and Son by Christopher Logue , The Descent into the Cave by James Kirkup , and The Sense of Movement by Thorn Gunn.
Readers: Duncan Mclntyre Patrick Garland , Derek Hart
Christopher Logue reads his own poems

played by Renata and Graciano Tarrago

by Frank Eyck Research Fellow,
St. Antony's College, Oxford rhe Bedchamber Crisis of I839-when the Queen, by refusing to dismiss members of her household with Whig affiliations, effectively prevented the formation of a Tory administration-is notorious. Much less is known of the way in which Prince Albert was instrumental in effecting the smooth transfer of power from Melbourne to Peel two years later.
In this programme Frank Eyck , who has been studying the Prince Consort's papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor, argues that it was Albert who first established the idea of the impartiality of the Crown in British politics, thus meeting Peel's claim that ' the political and private character of the Queen' should not be separated.

Being a record of a first sight of Greece: by Dorothy Baker
Narrator, Julia Lang with Valentine Dyall , John Gabriel , Alaric Cotter , Martin Starkie , James Perman , James Douglas , Joan Hart , Bryan Powley , Betty Hardy , John Stockbridge , John Sharp , Hamilton Dyce, Pamela Alan , Edgar Norfolk , Robert Rietty , Alec Finter , Warren Hearnden , Anthony Jacobs , Lewis Stringer , Eric Lugg , Gawn Grainger , David Peel , Julian Herington , Ann Totten , Neville Hartley , and Miriam Lehmann.
Production by Christopher Sykes

The Robert Masters String Trio:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola)
Muriel Taylor (cello)

Professor John Butt speaks about the recent edition of Pope's Letters, edited by George Sherburn

Excerpts from
Offenbach's operetta on gramophone records
Introduced by Philip Hope-Wallace
Baron de Gondremarck. Michel Roux
Raymond Saint-Paul Chorus
Lamoureux Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY JULES GRESSIER

A Russian folk tale told in English by Arthur Ransome

Piano Sonata played by Shulamith Shafir