A monthly series of talks on industrial affairs
THE PRICE OF TRADITION by Austen Albu , M.P.
There is growing anxiety about our export position. Mr. Albu suggests that one of the reasons for our comparative failure in this field is a lack of qualified graduates capable of adapting new scientific knowledge in design. He considers that some sectors of our long-established heavy industry are gravely handicapped by their traditional methods of training new entrants. In fact, he complains of a general hardening of the arteries in industry.

A secular cantata by BACH
BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate
Kalmar Chamber Orchestra Led by Carl Pini
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM
In 1729 Bach rejected after an audition for the organist's position at St. Thomas's, Leipzig, one Scheibe, who became a critic notorious for his attacks on Bach's ' learned style.' In Phoebus and Pan Picander provided Bach with a medium to reply to these criticisms. Pan is a kind of Beckmesser, challenging Phoebus to a contest of song; Midas, who declares for Pan, is given donkey's cars by Apollo who represents Bach's own ' art of charm.' The cantata reveals Bach among his contemporaries producing at a local music society a work both exemplifying and defending his art against his youthful detractor.
Two Christmas Cantatas: Dec. 24

John Betjeman reads Chapters 8 and 9 of his new autobiographical poem
The chapter headings read by the Rector of St. Fagan's
Glamorgan
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
Last of three programmes

A series of monthly discussions each comparing different interpretations on records of a single work
2: CHOPIN'S PRELUDES played by Claudio Arrau , Moura Lympany Artur Rubinstein , and others
Speakers
Lamar Crowson
Paul Hamburger
Frank Merrick
Chairman, J. A. Westrup Heather Professor of Music in the University of Oxford