Amadeo Baldovino (cello)
Alfons Kontarsky and Aloys Kontarsky
(two pianos)
Part 1

A weekly review of the arts
This edition includes:
Vera Traill on the season of Czech films at the National Film Theatre In the interests of topicality it is not possible to include details of all Comment items in RADIO TIMES.

Part 2
Sonata for two pianos and percussion
Bartok
These weekly concerts are given before an audience at the BBC's studios in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London. Tickets may be obtained by applying to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

A group of three programmes
I-Sir John Davies
' Nosce Teipsum
Or the Original Nature and Immortality of the Soul'
T. S. Eliot, in a famous essay, found the same kinds of interest in this late sixteenth-century poem as in some passages of Dante. JOHN SPARROW, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, selects and presents excerpts to bring out both its melody and its passion.

Northern (Hindustani)
Bismillah Khan (shahnai) with A small instrumental ensemble
Yaman raga
Thumrie (Khamach raga) Piloo (Jhinjhoti dadra) Purvi dhun
(Recording made available by courtesy of All India Radio, New Delhi)
Fourth of six programmes devised by Narayana Menon Southern (Carnatic): March 4

Short story by Alan Sillitoe
Read by the author
A small boy in a Midlands back yard sees something he would never have seen at the pictures — ' a real bloke stringing himself up.' At the time he only has eyes for technical detail, such as the size of the knot, but later the experience makes him draw some hard-headed conclusions.