by Norman Hunt
Lecturer in Political Economy in the University of Oxford
Today's inauguration of a new President of the United States will doubtless lead to repetitions of the view that his office is one of great power. In fact, says Dr. Hunt, the President has less power than a British Prime Minister. In this talk he analyses the origins of this situation and the extent to which Presidents in this century have been able to circumvent it.

Sonata No. 3, in E minor
Played by Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord) on a gramophone record

or How to find a poet
' A kind of fairy story by ZOFIA ILINSKA
Produced by Louis MACNEICE

Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Ian Wilson (oboe)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Leader, Neville Marriner

by Benjamin Frankel
In this talk Benjamin Frankel con-siders the concept of music as an abstract art and advances an alternative to the idea of * absolute music.'