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Richard Porson (1759-1808) by R. M. Ogilvie
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
It was Porson who first brought the necessary discipline and scientific criticism to the study of classical texts. He greatly admired Bentley; he once said that when he was seventeen he knew everything but when he was twenty-four and had read Bentlev he reatised that he knew nothing. Nonetheless, he saw that before using imagination or conjecture a scholar should establish the earliest recoverable state of the text.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Porson
Unknown:
R. M. Ogilvie

Paul Tortelier (cello)
Reginald Moore (organ)
Ernest Element (violin)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Sonata No. 6, in D for unaccompanied cello
Trio-Sonata No. 6. in G for organ
Sonata No. In G for violin and harpsichord
The Trio-Sonata was recorded in the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
Last of six programmes of Instrumental music by Bach

Contributors

Cellist:
Paul Tortelier
Organist:
Reginald Moore
Violinist:
Ernest Element
Harpsichordist:
Charles Spinks

Three talks by C. Wright Mills
Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
8-The Decline of the Left
In Professor Wright Mills's view there b a world-wide collapse of the left today. It is due, he thinks, to the ' establishment ' of the left in Western Europe; to the two-party system monopolising political activities in the U.S.A.; and to the lack of legal basis for any opposition in the U.S.S.R.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wright Mills

Third Programme

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