1910-1960
Programme 2
The second of two documentaries based on recordings made in South Africa in this, the fiftieth year of the Union.
This programme examines the theory and practical implications of apartheid the fiercely debated racial policy of the Nationalist Government. It gives a cross-section of the views of the principal racial and political groups in South Africa.
Narrator, David Lytton
Production by David Lytton and Laurence Gilliam

Erling Bengtsson (cello) Frederick Stone (piano)

A conversation between
Richard Wollheim Reader in Philosophy
In the University of London and Bernard Williams
Lecturer in Philosophy tn the University of London
Is It liberty to do what one desires? Can you speak of restriction of liberty when you cannot hold anyone responsible for it? Or when you restrict liberty to raise the standard of living? Is it freedom to be free from your desires? Grant that freedom is never an absolute value, what sort of thing would justify you in describing a society as free?

A sequence of poems by W. B. Yeats with music for words perhaps by Michael Tippett
The sequence of thirteen poems is drawn from Words for Music Perhaps and A Woman Young and Old. The poems are spoken, and the music consists of instrumental interludes or gestures.
Ensemble conducted by the composer
Production by Anthony Thwaite

Arias from
Rodelinda ' and ' Radamisto '
Russell Oberlin (counter-tenor) with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Conductor, Thomas Dunn on a gramophone record