KARL MILLER speaks about some recent novels and about certain changes in taste that seem to have occurred in the writing and reception of the novel in England. Mr. Miller thinks that, while the use of some of the characteristic materials of poetry has come to be distrusted in the novel, it has also become clear that several of the best novels of the time have relied on borrowings of this kind. Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago is a recent example.
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Last of six programmes of Schumann's chamber music with piano
by Sylvia Wynter
Sister Sue, wife of Lazarus, Cleo Laine; Sister Ann, her unmarried sister, Pearl Prescod; Aunt Kate, widow of Aloysius, the second elder of Hebron, Pauline Henriques; Obadiah Brown, a carpenter, now elder of the New Believers of Hebron, James Clarke; Brother Hugh, the chief recorder, Earl Cameron; Sister Gee, Hugh's young wife, Nadia Cattouse; Brother Zacky, Andre Dakar; Brother Lazarus, Robert Adams; Sister Eufemia, Sheila Clarke; Sister Beatrice, Lola Parkinson; Brother Ananias, Andrew Salkey; Brother Julius, Frank Singuineau; Rose Brown, Obadiah's wife, Sylvia Wynter; Miss 'Gatha, widow of Moses, the first elder of Hebron, Elisabeth Welch; Isaac, her crippled son, Gordon Woolford; Drummer, Emmanuel Myers.
Production by Robin Midgley
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 5) DURING THE INTERVAL (7.25-7.35 app.):
Guitar music by Turlna played by Laurindo Almeida on a gramophone record
Part 1
Selections from
' Poetry for Supper'
Arranged and introduced by Alan Pryce-Jones
Readers:
Basil Jones and Alun Owen
Part 2
It is often said that there is little to choose between the parties of the Right and Left in British politics. MAURICE SHOCK, Praelector in Politics at University College, Oxford, shows how this is a natural result of the two-party system.