in association with the CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL OF
BRITISH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Helen Watts (contralto)
Allegri String Quartet:
Eli Goren. James Barton
Patrick Ireland, William Pleeth with Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
Fro.n the Town Hall, Cheltenham
Part 1

Talk by Tom Soper
Sub-Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
In 1951 eighty per cent of the population of England and Wales was classified as urban and under twenty per cent as rural. A hundred years earlier the proportions had been equal.
Reviewing Victor Bonham-Carter 's recent book Dartington Hall : the history of an experiment, Mr. Soper assesses the attempt to re-establish a rural economy in South Devon in the face of this national migration to the towns.

Part 2

A survey of Communist thinking on topics of the day
The first broadcast in this new series deals with the revival of the Russo-Yugoslav dispute.
Compiled by members of the BBC's foreign news department

Claude Helffer (piano)

by W. H. George
Department of Physics, Chelsea College of Science and Technology
Would it be possible, by electronic ' fiddling,' to synthesise the castrato voice so as to reproduce the vocal quality for which Handel, Gluck, and Mozart, among others, wrote? In investigating the possibility, Dr. George has come to surprising conclusions.