Sonata No. 1, In G
Szymon Goldberg (violin)
Artur Balsam (piano) on a gramophone record

by R. C. Oldfield
Professor of Psychology in the University of Oxford
The speaker believes that the achievement of David Hartley , who died two hundred years ago this month, has never been fully appreciated. Unlike most of his more eminent contemporaries, he was interested as much in the observation and explanation of behaviour as in theories of the mind, and he produced a systematic, essentially ' modern psychology before the physiological evidence was at hand to support it.

PART 1

by Peter Clarke
Reader, Leonard Sachs
Mr. Clarke is a Cape Coloured writer who works in the docks at Simonstown. This story recalls childhood pleasures crowded into ' breaks' from a mission school.
(The recorded broadcast of July 16)

' Die Harmonie der Welt'
A talk on the opera
(in English: relayed from Munich)

PART 2
(Relayed from the Prinzregententheater, Munich, by courtesy of Bayerischer Rundfunk)

by Denis Diderot
Being the report of a notable conversation, on divers topics, which took place in the year 1761 between M. Diderot and M. Jean-Francois Rameau , nephew to the celebrated composer.
Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Richard N. Coe
Produced by Terence Tiller with

Harold Clarke (flute)
Hubert Dawkes
(harpsichord and piano)