The American poet
Kenneth Rexroth
Interviewed by A. Alvarez
Rexroth, known in the nineteen-thirties as one of the ' political' poets of the day, became later the chief sponsor of attempts to marry poetry with jazz. In recent years he has been regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a guardian angel of the Beat Generation.

Fantasia Contrappuntistica played by Alfred Brendel (piano) on a gramophone record

An illustrated study in the origins of Wagner's opera by Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose
Readers: Kenneth Connor, Joan Matheson, Anthony Shaw, Eric Phillips, Edgar Norfolk, David Peel, Charles Simon, John Scott
Narration by John Glen
Piano illustrations by Peter Gellhorn

(BBC recording: second broadcast)
("Tannhauser" from Sadler's Wells: Friday at 7.30)

of the 17th and 18th centuries
The Goldsbrough Ensemble:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Nona Liddell (violin) Terence Weil (cello)
Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)