Second hearing of the talks arranged to mark the tercentenary of the Royal Society
5: Genes and Atoms by F. H. C. Crick , F.S.S. of the M.R.C. Unit for Molecular Biology.
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
X-ray crystallography is revealing the structure of genetic material. We know something of the way in which genes carry information, and replicate themselves. Amazing precision is demanded of these structures, and dramatic consequences can arise from a single defect. : second broadcast

Mass for five voices sung by The Choir of King's College, Cambridge Director, David Willcocks on a gramophone record

A script for broadcasting by Frederick Bradnum from
The Dynasts by THOMAS HARDY with music by Humphrey Searle
PART 1: TRAFALGAR
Wherever there was water to float a ship, I was certain to find you in my way (Napoleon to Neil Campbell at Elba)
Pollard, a midshipman.Jon Rollason Other parts played by members of the BEC Drama Repertory Company
Music played by Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer Production by R. D. SMITH

Symphony No. 9. in D minor played by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hilversum
Conductor, Bernard Haitink
Recording made available by courtesy oi Stichting Nederlandsche Radio-Unie

David Sylvester interviews five American Abstract Expressionists
3: Philip Guston
The movement in painting which emerged in New York during the 1940s and is known as Abstract Expressionism or as Action Painting has probably been the most influential movement in post-war art, and is certainly the first movement in the history of American art to have had wide international repercussions. In these interviews (recently recorded in New York) with some of the movement's leading figures, the most dominant single idea is that, in painting spontaneously towards the realisation of an unforeseen pictorial order, the painter is discovering his own identity.

A Radio Ballad by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker
on the three generations of the herring fisherman

This programme, which originated in the BBC's Midland studios, was first broadcast in the Home Service in August. Last month it was awarded the Italian Press Association prize for Radio Documentary in the 1960 Italia Prize competition at 9.0
Told by Sam Larner of Winterton, Ronnie Balls of Yarmouth, George Draper of Lowestoft, Frank West of Gardenstown, with the crew of the 'Honeydew' and men and women from the fishing communities of East Anglia and the Moray Firth

Set into song by Ewan MacColl
With A.L. Lloyd, Elizabeth and Jane Stewart, Ian Campbell, John Clarence and a section of the Clarion Singers under Katharine Thomson
Jim Bray (bass), Fitzroy Coleman (guitar), Alf Edwards (concertina and ocarina), Kay Graham diddle), Peggy Seeger (banjo, mandolin, and auto harp), Bruce Turner (alto-sax and clarinet)
The hymn sung by Lewis Cardno of Cairnbulg
The poem 'The Elusive Herring' written and read by James Burnett of Gardenstown

Orchestration and music direction, Peggy Seeger
Technical direction, John Clarke
Production by Charles Parker

piano
Haydn: Sonata in E flat (Haydn Society No. 49)
Mozart Adagio in B minor (K.540)
Fantasia in D minor (K.397) Minuet in D (K.355)
Rondo in A minor (K.5U) Twelve variations on Je suis Lindor (K.364)