Radio Philharmonic Sextet of Hilversum :
Adriaan Bonsel (flute) Sam Zilverberg (oboe) Jos D'hondt (clarinet)
Anton Doomernik (bassoon)
Kees Versney (horn)
Herman Kruyt (piano)
by Heinz Huber
Translated by Christopher Holme
Read by Brian Wilde
In this short story Heinz Huber one of the younger German writers, satirises the principal beneficiaries of Germany's economic recovery: the new class of technologists and business men with their cult of modernity in everything.
Amadeo Baldovino (cello)
The Chinese classical sixteen-string zither played and described by Professor Tsai-Ping Liang
President of the Chinese National
Music Association in Taipei, Taiwan Winter birds sporting over the stream
(c. 15th century)
Moonlight over a spring river by K. L. Kung (c. A.D. 900)
Professor Tsai-Ping Liang is interviewed by Roger Fiske
Rene Soames (tenor) Desmond Dupre (lute)
Come away, come, sweet Jove
If my complaints could passions move
Me me, and none but me
Now, oh now, I needs must part Sleep, wayward thoughts
Second of three programmes of songs by Dowland
Three talks by C. Wright Mills
Professor of Sociology at Columbia University 1-The Fourth Epoch
The Age of Enlightenment expected that reason and freedom would come to prevail in human history. Professor Wright Mills believes that we are witnessing the collapse of these expectations and the abdication of Western intellectuals.
The Cultural Apparatus: May 19