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The physicist's description of matter
S: MODELS AND MATTER by Mary Hesse of the University of Cambridge
The Quantum Theory correlates and predicts, but does it say anything about what matter is actually like? Dr. Hesse considers some common interpretations of the theory, and discusses the role of physical models in the representation of ' reality.'
A discussion: March 28

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Hesse

Prelude and Fugue In D minor
(Liibeck)
Partita: Ach wie nichtig, ach wie fltichtig (
Bohml Capriccio in D (Bdhm)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor
(Brahms) played by Hans Heintze organ of St. John's Church, Liineburg on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bohml Capriccio
Played By:
Hans Heintze

A conversation piece by ERIC EWENS baaed on ' Conversations on Religion with Lord Byron ' (published 1890) by JAMES KENNEDY , M.D. with John Laurie as Kennedy and Robert Eddison as George Gordon. Lord Byron
In 1823 James Kennedy , medical officer to the British garrison m Cephalonia, made the acquaintance of Lord Bvron who was on his way to Greece.' Kennedy tried to convert Byron to Christianity.
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Ewens
Unknown:
James Kennedy
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Robert Eddison
Unknown:
George Gordon.
Unknown:
James Kennedy
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall

by Nikolaus Pevsner
Professor of the History of Art in the University of London
Professor Pevsner is disturbed at what he calls the undisciplined and anti-rational approach of many architects today; he finds its most unattractive aspect in ' the new Neo-Isms,' especially in this country and Italy. To
. what extent, he asks, are architectural historians such as himself to blame for this departure from the rational and functional principles which seemed, in the 'thirties, so soundly established? Broadcast version of a recent address to the R.I.B.A.
: second broadcast

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