Canticum sacrum ad honorem sancti Marci nominis
Richard Robinson (tenor)
Howard Chitjian (baritone)
The Los Angeles Festival
Chorus and Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record

by Peter Townsend
Lecturer in Social Administration at the London School of Economics
The home, not the institution, is today becoming the place where society cares for the chronic sick, the mentally ill, parentless children, and the very old. Mr. Townsend first considers the reasons for this change, then criticises the institution for creating artificial communities and ignoring the importance of family relationships between the three generations. He argues that in an advanced and increasingly prosperous society few institutions, apart from certain hospitals, are indeed necessary.

played by Robert Riefling

A sceptical historical romance by Louis MacNeice
[Starring] Patrick Magee and Patrick Wymark
with Kathleen Michael and James McKechnie

The battle of Clontarf was fought in A.D. 1014, just north of Dublin, between the Irish and the Vikings. This is a dramatisation of an odd bit of history.

(BBC recording: third broadcast)