lute
Mouton
Pieces de luth on a gramophone record

by IONA and PETER OPIE
Four programmes showing how present-day children unwittingly keep alive th< speech, humour, customs, and beliefs of previous centuries.
1: Children's Language
Recordings from different parts ol England and Wales collected by Stewart Wavell '
Iona and Peter Ople
Father Damian Webb Sasha Moorsom
Narrated by Peter Opte
Produced by Sasha Moorsom
: secondi broadcast

Pietro Scarpini piano
Prokofiev
Sonata No. 9, In C
Scriabin
Nuances. Op. 66 No.
Feuillet d'album. Op. 58 Poeme, Op. 59 No. 1 Prelude, Op. 59 No. 2 Prelude, Op. 67 No. 1
Second of two programmes

In this introductory talk to the second hearing of a series of five interviews with American Abstract Expressionist painters, DAVID SYLVESTER indicates certain common themes in them, in particular the idea that in painting spontaneously towards the realisation of an unforeseen pictorial order the painter is discovering his own identity.

Gerald English (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt
Part 1
Lines written in an album, at Malta (Byron); The centaurs Games Stephens); Nemea (Lawrence Durrell ); Olive treei (Bernard Spencer ); The old ships (James Biroy Flecker ); Stanzas, written in dejection near Naples (Shelley)

by W. H. Audcn
A parlour game describing one's private vision of Eden has been played, mostly in England, for the last 150 years, says Auden: Dickens played at it in Pickwick Papers, Lewis Carroll in Alice, Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest.
And then there Is Ronald Firbank 's earthly paradise.

Part 2

Six talks by E. H. CARR
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
4: Causation in History
These talks are a broadcast version of Professor Carr's Trevelyan Lectures given earlier this year. In this talk he examines the origin of the recent widespread insistence by historians on the role of chance in history.
History as Progress: May 6

Patricia Clark (soprano) Ann Dowdall (soprano)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord) Terence Weil (cello continuo)
Purcell Suite in A minor, for harpsichord
Lost is my quiet
Dialogue between Thyrsia and Daphne Suite in C, for harpsichord
Ehegy on the Death of Queen Mary
Handel No. di vot non vo' fldami

A Soviet View
Margaret Miller analyses the recent controversy in the Soviet Press about the problems created by the very considerable cuts in the working days
: second1 broadcast