Elizabeth Simon
(soprano)
Norma Procter
(contralto)
Kathleen Joyce
(contralto)
Duncan Robertson
(tenor)
Denis Dowling
(baritone)
Owen Brannigan
(bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by NICOLAI MALKO
From the Royai Festival Hall, London
Part 1: Kodaly
THE SPINNING ROOM
A scene from
Transylvanian village life

by D. Daiches Raphael
Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Glasgow
Mr. Raphael, who has recently returned after spending six months in the U.S.A. at Hamilton College, asks what makes ' liberal arts and sciences' liberal, and how Americans meet the demands and temptations of their liberal education.
(: second broadcast)

Part 2: Shostakovich
SYMPHONY No. 5, in D minor

Songs of William Ross introduced and sung by J. C. M. Campbell
William Ross died at the end of the eighteenth century, at the age of twenty-eight. Ross and Marion are the Petrarch and Laura of this last golden age of Scottish Gaelic poetry.
Produced by Ian Grimble