Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
4: The Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis
Book XII
Translated by C. A. Trypanis Read by Patrick Garland
The Oxen ot the Sun
Book XII
Translated by Patric Dickinson
Read by Gary Watson
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
: second broadcast Calypso (Book V): April 30

Haydn Orchestra
Led by Joshua Glazier
Conducted by Heinz Unger
Part 1
SYMPHONY No. 39, In E flat (K.643)
SYMPHONY No. 40. in G minor
(K.550)

by Christopher Fyfe former Government Archivist Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone becomes independent on April 27. Christopher Fyfe assesses both the contribution of British policy and some of its contradictions which have held back this event after the remarkable achievements of the nineteenth century in the settlement and education of liberated Africans in Freetown.

Part 2
SYMPHONY No. 41, In C (K.551)

by Philip Laird
In this talk Philip Laird examines the general direction in which the avantgarde are moving the art of composition. He argues that their techniques have brought music closer to science and that the more that music is conceived pre-compositionally the easier it is to produce on a computer.

Cinque Frammenti di Saffo (1942)
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) with chamber orchestra conducted by Frederick Prausnitz
Goethe Lieder (1963)
Elisabeth Söderström (soprano) with three clarinets conducted by the composer en a gramophone record