and is it any use ? by R. Y. Jennings
Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge
(: second broadcast)

Sonata in A minor (D.845) Moments Musicaux played by Alfred Brendel (piano)

A Norwegian folk tale dramatised by Louis MacNeice
This is one of the classic-that is to say, universal-folk tales, and therefore exists on more than one plane.
Helga (Beth Boyd ); Father (James Thomason ); Halvor (Patricia Hayes ); Mother (Betty Hardy ); Prince (Jeremy Spenser ); Crones (Patience Collier ); East Wind (Garard Green ); West Wind (Liam Gaffney ); South Wind (Dino Galvani ); North Wind (Laidman Browne ); also Trolls
Music and specially devised sounds by Tristram Cary
Production by Louis MacNeice
followed by an interlude at 7.25

A group of talks on the possible developments in cultural and political fields
The Age of Discretion by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler takes a cheerful view of the beneficial effects of living under the threat of extermination.

Act 2

H.E. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Interviewed by Michael Edwardes
In a recent broadcast Michael Edwardes considered with the Rt. Hon. John Strachey, M.P., the post-war dissolution of empires and its consequences for the colonial powers. In this interview Mrs. Pandit, High Commissioner for India in London, discusses the implications of independence for her own country and the new relationship which it is evolving with its former rulers.

The Poet's Voice including:
A long poem by Owen Leeming
' The Priests of Serrabonne ' and four short poems by Janet Burroway. John Holloway
Rosemary Joseph and Christopher Middleton
Arranged and introduced by George MacBeth and read by the poets themselves