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First of four programmes of chamber music and songs by Roberto Gerhard

by Bernard Bergonzi
' Life ' is one of the most potent ' complex words' in modern criticism, Mr. Bergonzi remarks. He takes the volume of James-Wells correspondence, published earlier this year, as a pretext for raising the question of the novelist's relation with his subject-matter, with ' reality' or ' experience ' or, indeed, with ' life.'
(: previously broadcast on September 2)

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Reflections on the origins and development of harmony by Percival R. Kirby formerly Professor of Music,
Witwatersrand University
Professor Kirby advances the view that man's harmonic consciousness is not innate but a response to the harmonic law in nature. In illustration he plays on some of the most primitive instruments known to man, including the Bushman shooting-bow.

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Part 1

Twelve years ago an article appeared in the American quarterly The Sewanee Review called ' The Intentional Fallacy,' claiming that ' the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art.'
GEORGE WATSON , Lecturer in English at University College, Swansea, argues that this fashionable critical position is in itself fallacious.

Part 2

1 — ' The Quarrel'
Book 1. lines 1-427
Translated by Peter Green
Read by Denis McCarthy
First of twelve programmes from Homer's Iliad in new translations by different hands.

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