conducts the BBC Scottish Orchestra Leader, Peter Gibbs in a programme of his own music
Part 1
STATEMENTS (1934)
Militant: Cryptic: Dogmatic; Subjective; Jingo; Prophetic
FILM Suite: Our Town (1940)
by Antony Flew, Professor of Philosophy, University College of North Staffordshire
The 250th anniversary of the birth of David Hume fell on April 26.
Professor Flew talks about Hume's notorious essay on Miracles.
BBC recording: second broadcast
conducts a programme of his own music
Part 2
SYMPHONY No. 3 (1944-46)
Illustrated talk by Geoffrey Sharp
Records made by FurtwSngler with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra of Schubert's Ninth Symphony and of Schumann's Fourth Symphony will be broadcast on Tuesday and on Thursday in the series Historic Performances on Record.
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
8: The Swineherd
BOOK XIV
Translated by Donald Davie
Read by Gary Watson
Odysseus meets Telemachus
Book XVI
Translated by Patric Dickinson
Read by Patrick Garland
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
: second broadcast
violin and piano
by Mark Prestwich Senior Lecturer in History and; Political Studies in the University of Natal former editor of The Natal Witness
To what extent does the Republic to be inaugurated in South Africa on May 31 represent a defeat for English-speaking South Africans? The speaker gives his views on the effect which the transition to a Republic, coupled with departure from the Commonwealth, will have on the country's internal political life and foreign relations.
Second of two talks
A script for radio by GERARD McLARNON
An old Irishman and his old sister hear someone urgently knocking at the door in the middle of the night. A young man appears ... with J. G. Devlin as Dan
Elizabeth Begley as Mary
Jack MacGowran as The Young Man
Music composed and played by Humphrey Searle
Produced by David THOMSON
piano
Three Sonatas (Scarlatti)
L. 457. in C
L. 386. in G minor L. 142. in E flat
Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No. I
(Beethoven) on gramophone records
by Nathalie Sarraute
In this talk Mme. Sarraute , forerunner of the French ' new novelists,' explains her concern with the margin of consciousness where thought-fragments form and dissolve, the ' tropisms ' which underlie speech and behaviour. : second broadcast
