An enquiry into the support which is provided from taxes and rates towards the collection of painting and sculpture and the patronage of living artists in this country; its present scope and Organisation and future needs
Conducted by Basil Taylor and presented with the recorded comments of Professor Lionel Robbins C.B. ,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery. and a Trustee of the Tate Gallery
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, K.T., G.B.E., D.L.
Chairman of the National Art Collections Fund, and a Trustee of the Scottish National Galleries and the British Museum
Sir Philip Hendy
Director of the National Gallery, and President of the Museums Association
Ernest Musgrave O.B.E. ,
Director of the Leeds City Art Gallery
Philip James C.B.E. ,
Director of Art, the Arts Council
Sir Herbert Read, D.S.O., M.C.
Member of the Fine Arts Advisory
Committee of the British Council
Sir Harold Claughton C.B.E.
Becretary, Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries
Lord Bridges, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.
Chairman. Royal Fine Art Commission (former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury)

Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Fourth of five programmes, each of which includes a quartet by Mozart and a quartet by a contemporary British composer.

A study in the later years of the last Empress of the French by Harold Kurtz with John Glen , John Glyn-Jones
Martin Starkie , Gladys Spencer Eric Phillips ,Patience Collier
Production by Christopher Sykes