by Frank Laffitte
Talk by Diana Poulton with illustrations played by Julian Bream
Diana Poulton , who is preparing the first complete edition of Dowland's solo music, claims in this talk that his compositions for lute are no less pre-eminent than his songs.
An opera in three acts
Libretto from the text of HEINRICH VON KLEIST
Music by HANS WERNER HENZE
See facing page and page 14
Act 1
by Martin Wells
Department of Zoology, Cambridge
All animals, man included, have to face the problem of growing up in a hostile world. This is a game in which everyone cheats in one way or another, but the octopus and his ilk probably break the rules with the most ingenuity.
Act 2
S: ACTS OF WILL AND RESPONSIBILITY by H. L. A. Hart
Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford
What distinguishes an act of will? If we distribute praise and blame, what is it we are praising and blaming? ... The most ancient and modern of moral questions.
Determinism: January 31
Act 3
Recording made available by courtesy of Norddeutscher Rundfunk followed by an interlude at 8.50
by JOHN MILTON and Produced by R. D. SMITH
: third broadcast
Terzetto, Op. 74 for two violins and viola played by members of the Vlach Quartet on a gramophone record