Suite No. 3, In C for unaccompanied cello played by Christopher Bunting

by Bernard Malamud
Read by Sam Wanamaker
The characteristic world of Bernard Malamud 's stories is the poor Jewry of New York. The Magic Barrel, which takes as its hero an earnest rabbinical student in search of a wife, is a hilarious and sad exploration of a corner of that world.

Symphony No...6, in A minor played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Henry Datyner )
Conductor, William Steinberg
A booklet by Dervck Cooke , with foreword by Bruno Walter , has been published by the BBC as a companion to the Mahler centenary celebrations. It can be ordered, price 5s., through newsagents and booksellers or direct by sending a crossed postal order for 5s. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]

Two talks by George Steiner
In this first talk George Steiner describes the manner in which mathematics and the symbol-languages of the sciences-have since the seventeenth century come to dominate most of our intellectual experience.
(: second broadcast)

Quartet in E minor
Op. 121 played by the London String Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)