by Geoffrey Warnock
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor Austin died on February 8. A great school of English philosophy lost one of its most distinguished teachers.
He left very little published work. Mr. Warnock speaks in appreciation.
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Second of two programmes
by Robert Simpson
A present-day composer's reflections
Collected and introduced by W. S. Merwin
Poems by and about prisoners, and sections y from the English ' gallows selections from the English' gallows literature'— popular compositions for the most part published as broadsheets, concerning crimes, criminals, hangmen, and executions-from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
Readers:
John Slater and John Sharp
followed by an Interlude at 8.0
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Part 1
The city of Adelaide recently organised Australia's first Festival of Arts. MAX HARRIS , an Australian critic, describes the events of the Festival against the background of what he calls the ' spiky, constant war of attrition between cultural and anti-cultural forces in Australia.'
Part 2
Speakers:
H. D. Lewis
Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London
The Rev. D. E. Jenkins
Fellow and Chaplain of Queen's College, Oxford
In his book Our Experience of God, published last year, Professor Lewis re-examined the question of the truth ot religious assertions and attempted a fresh . post-empiricist' philosophical account of the nature of religious claims. In this conversation Mr. Jenkins presses the author to elucidate his general position further, and offers his own criticism.