Miroirs (Ravel)
Etudes (Book 1) (Debussy) on gramophone records

ARTHUR KOESTLER takes a cheerful view of the beneficial effects of living under the threat of extermination.

Russell Oberlin (counter-tenor) with Diana Poulton (lute)
Francesca Palmer
(viola da gamba)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)

by Raymond Queneau
English version by Barbara Wright with music by Pierre Philippe conducted by Charles Mackerras
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
THE QUARTET:
Denis Quilley , Andrew Downie
Alan Dudley. David Rees
THE STYLISTS:
Max Adrian. Norman Shelley Frank Duncan. George Hagan and Michael Turner
The Episode: A young man on the platform of a bus gets his feet trodden on by an older man whenever passengers get on or off. Later, the young man is seen on the corner of the street in conversation with a friend who is advising him to have the top button of his overcoat raised.
The Exercises: In the original version Ravmond Queneau explored the possibilities of language by relating this episode in ninety-nine different ways.
The English Version: The programme consists of thirty of these Exercises, freely adapted to the English tongue.

See panel. Part 1

by M. A. Hoskin , Ph.D.
Lecturer in the History of Science,
University of Cambridge
It is still too readily assumed that the scientific revolution stemmed from a re-discovery and reshaping of ancient philosophy after the barrenness of the Middle Ages Today historians of science differ in the significance they attribute to medieval natural philosophy. Dr. Hoskin considers some recent contributions to this problem.

Part 2

by Oliver Goldsmith

Sextet in A, Op. 48
Aeolian String Quartet:
Sydney Humphreys Trevor Williams
Watson Forbes, Derek Simpson with Gwynne Edwards (viola) and John Moore (cello)