Last of four programmes featuring trends in the development of its repertoire over the past hundred years or so. Alexander Young (tenor)
A section of the London Symphony Orchestra
(Led by Peter Gibbs )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Part 1
The St. Gaudens in Boston Common:
Colonel Shaw and his colored regiment
Putnam's Camp. Redding, Connecucut From the Housatonic at Stockbridge

by R. N. Iyer
Critics of empire have tended to concentrate upon weaknesses of imperial theory; its apologists, upon the virtues of individual empire builders. Not enough attention has been paid by either to the ideas and motives underlying the working of the imperial systems. In this talk R. N. Iyer , Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, discusses the way in which successive currents of English political thought influenced the British system of rule in India.

Part 2

An Illustrated discussion between
Jeremy Noble and Deryck Cooke author of this recent controversial book

(piano)
Moment musical in C (D.780, No. 1);
Two Impromptus (D.899) (Schubert)
Harmonies du soir (Liszt)
Part of a public recital recorded In Sofia on February 25. 1958. by courtesy of the Bulgarian State Radio: on a gramophone record