Trio for flute, viola, and cello played by members of the Melos Ensemble

A comedy by Alain-Rene Lesage
Translated by W. S. Merwin with music by Alan Paul Produced by R. D. Smith
Details as Tuesday 8.50
DURING THE INTERVAL (6.5-6.15 app.): A gramophone record of movements from Rameau's Concert en Sextuor, No. 6: Oiseau-Lyre Orchestral Ensemble, conducted by Louis de Froment

Part 1

by Abdus Salam , Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington
Professor Salam speaks about current attempts in physics to understand the behaviour and intrinsic nature of the sixteen elementary particles from which all matter is made. He suggests that clues to their interpretation are to be found in space and time concepts.

Part 2

David Harris talks about a German soprano whose reputation in this country depends entirely on the gramophone records she made in the late nineteen-twenties
Examples in the programme include

Translation by Norman Cameron of ' La Nuit de Decembre ' by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
The Poet: Robert Eddison

Sonata in F minor. Op. 34b played by Janine Reding and Henry Piette
(two pianos)