Simon Streatfeild (viola)
Elizabeth Winship (piano)

P. H. Nowell-Smith ,Professor of Philosophy in the University of Leicester, argues that the aim of a university should be to inculcate skills rather than to impart information.
This broadcast is based on his inaugural lecture, delivered at Leicester University in January.

Missa brevis (Palestrina): Netherlands Chamber Choir, conductor Felix de Nobel
Messa a quattro voci da cannella
(Monteverdi): Amsterdam Motet Choir, conductor Felix de Nobel , with Albert de Klerk (organ) on gramophone records

An experiment in biography by Laurence Kitchin
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Details as Monday at 8.20

Part 1

Two short stories
Read by Patrick Magee
In his collection of stories Red Cavalry Isaac Babel described his experiences as a young Jewish intellectual fighting with a Cossack regiment in the Polish campaign of 1920. He was obsessed with the need to prove himself, to acquire what he called 'the simplest of proficiencies-the ability to kill my fellow men.' My First Goose and The Death of Doleushov illustrate his predicament.

Part 2

A dramatic poem by Browning
An abridged version in nine parts
PART 8 (from Book 11)
Donald Wolfit as Guido '
Two former friends of Guido, a Cardinal and an Abate, have been sent to his ceU to minister to him as he awaits execution. To them he addresses his final apologia.