A survey of Communist thinking on topics of today.
Compiled by members of the BBC's Foreign News Department
(BBC recording)

A story by Richard Garnett.
Read by Felix Aylmer.
A tale of how 'two most eminent philosophers were reduced to beggary, and constrained to wander in remote and insalubrious regions; the one for advising a king, the other for instructing an emperor'.
The Purple Head is taken from The Twilight of the Gods.
(Recorded broadcast of Dec. 24, 1956)

followed by an interlude at 8.55

String Trio (1951), Clarinet Sonatina (1967), Piano Quartet (1942)
Reginald Kell (clarinet), Josephine Lee (piano)
The Robert Masters Piano Quartet: Robert Masters (violin), Nannie Jamieson (viola), Muriel Taylor (cello), Ross Pratt (piano)
(The Trio and the Sonatina are first broadcast performances in this country)
(BBC recording)

Last of four programmes of chamber music by Martinu.

by Eric Ewens.
A portrait of Alexander Pope in prose and verse drawn from the recollections of his friends and enemies.
(Wednesday's recorded broadcast)