Irma Kolassi (soprano), Rex Stephens (piano)
(BBC recording)

by Philip E. Mosely.
Mr. Mosely, formerly Professor of International Relations at the Russian Institute of Columbia University, reviews some of the assumptions on which United States foreign policy has been based in the past decade and discusses how far they are still valid.
(BBC recording)

followed by an interlude at 8.65

or Things as They Are
A version by Walter Allen and Rayner Heppenstall of the novel by William Godwin (1756-1836)
[Starring] Frank Duncan and Carleton Hobbs
This novel by William Godwin has been out of print for many years. Yet it is a landmark in the history of the novel, as its author's Political Justice is in libertarian thought.

(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 18)

The first work (dated 1829) represents clothes being beaten on a kinuta, or wooden washing block. The shamisen is a three-stringed guitar-like instrument. Shika no tone, a duet expresses the calling and response of stags and hinds. The shakuhachi is a vertical bamboo flute. Isuzugawa was composed one New Year's Day, when the Japanese traditionally pray for good fortune and worship at their shrines: the River Isuzu flows before the Grand Shrine, at Ise. The koto (a form of harp) is played in this recording by the composer, the blind Dr. Michio Miyagi; who died in 1956.