played by Marjorie Mitchell

by Basil Taylor
A talk on the relation between portrait painting and portrait photography, suggested by Richard Avedon 's recent book Observations and by the photography of August Sander.
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Amici String Quartet:
Lionel Bentley (violin) Sylvia Cleaver (violin) Harold Harriott (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)
This is the first of three programmes each containing a quartet by a contemporary British composer and a quartet by Dvorak.

In this programme he comments on his own poems and reads some of them, or extracts from some of them, in Greek. English translations are by Rex Warner, Phitip Sherrard , Bernard Spencer , Nanos Valaoritis , and Lawrence Durrell.
Readers: George Seferis
C. Day Lewis , Louis MacNeice

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Five talks on the Restoration
5-Dryden's political satires by T. F. Prince
Professor of English Literature in the University of Southampton
'Satire on contemporary politics had become not only possible but inevitable.' Professor Prince considers why it was that these poems were not only a topical success and a political influence but also an ' unmistakable artistic success.'

followed by an interlude at 9.15

by August Strindberg
Translated by Peter Watts
Produced by Peter Watts
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Sonata in A, Op. 69 played by Zara Nelsova (cello)
Artur Balsam (piano)