by Alan Cottrell
Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy in the University of Cambridge
Modern research often calls for large teams of scientists working together on a single project, in a way analogous to a ballet company or a symphony orchestra.
But where are the impresarios of science? How should we recognise them and train them? And how can we preserve the enthusiasm and creativity of each individual in the team? Perhaps the arts can provide the answers.

from the novel by William Golding
Radio script by Donald McWhinnie
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How can you share the quality of my terror
Produced by Donald McWhinme

Eighth of a number of programmes each recorded from a Thursday Invitation Concert broadcast earlier in the year
Grayeton Burgess (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Schola Polyphonica
An Instrumental Ensemble
Directed by Henry Washington
Dorothy Dorow (soprano)
The New Music Ensemble: Richard Bennett (piano) Susan Bradshaw (celeste) David Johnson (vibraphone) Elizabeth Fletcher (harp) Alfred Dukes (tubular bells) James Holland, Charles Donaldson, Bernard Harman, Jacqueline Gush (percussion)
Conductor, John Carewe
Ave Regina caelorum Beata viscera