Southern (Carnatic)
M. S. Subbalakshmi (singer)
R. K. Venkatarama Sastri (violin)
V. Nagarajan (mridangam)
Kothanda Rama lyer (ghatam)
The performance of a piece of Indian music is based on a melody mode (known as raga) and a time measure (known as tala).
This programme includes works by Tyagaraja, Swati Tirunal , Shyama Sastri , Muthuswami Dikshitar , and Nilakantha Sivan , as well as some traditional pieces. The following ragas will be heard: Harikpmbodi, Pantuvarali, Sankarabharanam, Vasantha, Bauli, and Senjuruti.
(Recording made available by courtesv of All India Radio. New Delhi)
Third ef six programmes devised by Narayana Menon

Donald Mitchell introduces
Alban Berg 's opera to be broadcast next Monday

A reconstruction by G. W. Ireland
On Tuesday evenings for more than a quarter of a century there gathered in the flat of Stephane Mallarme a group of young writers and artists: many of them were later to rival in fame the Master himself. This reconstruction of an imaginary evening in the 1890s. Arthur Symons (Frank Duncanh Mallarmé
(Marius Gormg ): Paul, ;<ie% c,V„ J,y
McClelland): Paul Claudel (Derek Smith );
Andre Gide (Richard Hart ,: Pierre <-ou>s
(David Peel):Henri de Regnier (Gabriel
Wool!)- Francis Vieli-Gnfhn (Guy Kingsley
Poynter); Claude Debussy (William Squire );
Genevieve Mallarme (Freda Dowie )
Production by Anthony Thwaite

by Kenneth Cragg

During the last decade a number of books by Muslim writers in Arabic have been published in Egypt, all of them concerned with the person and role of Jesus. Canon
Cragg finds here some signs of a fresh approach to the age-old Muslim-Christian impasse, particularly in M.K. Hussein's "City of Wrong - a Friday in Jerusalem", published recently in an English version.

(BBC recording)

Part 2

ALLEN GINSBERG , author of the long poem Howl and one of the leading figures among the American Beat Generation poets, talks about his ideas to Donald Carne-Ross .

Sonata No. 2 (Poeme mystique) played by Rafael Druian (violin)
John Simms (piano) on a gramophone record