by Frank Martin
with Gerald English (tenor)
George James (bass)
Ambrosian Singers
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Ivor McMahon (violin)
Quintin Ballardie (viola) Harold Harriott (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
Joy Hall (cello)
Stuart Knussen (double-bass)
Charles Spinks (piano)
CONDUCTED BY WALTER GOEHR
Repetiteur, William Reid.
Part 1
The second of six programmes

by R. S. Nyholm F.R.S. ,
Professor of Chemistry,
University College, London
Professor Nyholm argues that the drive to produce scientists and technologists in ever greater abundance and the increasing emphasis on applied research seriously endangers the pursuit of fundamental research, upon which all future progress is ultimately dependent.

Part 2

A programme devised and - Introduced by Christopher Monk about an instrument popular In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and now to be played In a BBC studio for the first time
Christopher Monk and Brian Baker
(cornetts)
John Hallett (sackbutt)
Alan Lumsden and Ray Carter
(trombones)
Charles Spinks (chamber organ)
Mary Thomas (soprano).
Edgar Fleet (tenor).
Owen Grundy (baritone)

Selected poems read by Kristin Linklater , Oliver Burt and Godfrey Kenton