by R. Hanbury Brown, F.R.S., Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Manchester
Second hearings of the talks arranged to mark the tercentenary of the Royal Society

Radio techniques have developed into a valuable observational method in astronomy. They provide information inaccessible to optical telescopes; conversely, the precision of conventional methods supplements radio data. The problems raised by the stability of spiral galaxies are among those that may be solved by this new approach.
(BBC recording: second broadcast)

Two Suites
No. 2. in F; No. 3, in D minor Played bv
Thurston Dart (harpsichord) on a gramophone record

by PETER GURNEY with Nigel Stock
John Shaw knocks on the door of the house where he lived as a boy, but it remains closed to him. Behind it is the answer to the mystery of his childhood dream-world. and members of the K BBC Drama Repertory Company Music hv the Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Robin MIDGLEY

and wind instruments
Alfred Orda (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate Wind section of the London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Bryan Fairfax

Four programmes on the music of African territories-the three High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, and the Portuguese Territory of Mozambique. 1: THE MUSIC OF BASUTOLAND
Introduced by Hugh Tracey
Director of the International Library of African Music, who has spent many years recording the traditional folk music of African peoples