by Joel Hurstfield
Professor of Modern History at University College, London
Professor Hurstfield discusses the contribution of this veteran American historian (who died last year at the age of seventy-eight) to our knowledge of the Elizabethan age, and contrasts his approach to historical biography with the new methods and techniques tried out by younger historians.

Quartet in B flat, Op. 130
(with Grosse Fuge as finale) played by the Juilliard String Quartet:
Robert Mann (violin) Isidore Cohen (violin) Raphael Hillyer (viola)
Claus Adam (cello)
Second of three programmes
Quartet in C, Op. 59 No. 3: June 6

Chosen and introduced by Louis MacNeice
Readers:
Mary O'Farrell. William Devlin and Robert Irwin
followed by an interlude at 7.45

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The action takes place in England in 1536 ACT 1:
The Queen's apartment in Windsor Castle

by P. F. Strawson
Fellow of University College, Oxford
How do we distinguish and identify people? What do I mean when I refer to myself? It is much easier than you might suppose to start a long line of illusion by misconceiving the uses of the personal pronoun, and the illusion can be quite disastrous; Descartes, for example.

Act 2: An ante-room adjoining the Queen's apartment

Story by Nadine Gordimer
A young Afrikaner in charge of a road-gang in the Kalahari Desert enjoys his last evening of routine solitude before he leaves to get married, an evening of unique peace and beauty.
Read by Bruce Stewart

Acr 3: The Tower of London