Drolc String Quartet
Eduard Drolc (violin) Heinz BBttger (violin)
Siegbert Ueberschaer (viola) Heinz Majowski (cello)

Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
11: The Bow (continued) and Beginning of Battle
BOOKS xxi and xxii
Translated by Alistair Elliot
Read by Denis McCarthy
Series devised by Louis MacNeice
Produced by Anthony Thwaite
(Second broadcast)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Overture: Iphigenia in Aulis Gluck

A series of four programmes
In the years 1950-65 universities throughout the world will have grown faster and more widely than ever before. This series examines some aspects of British universities today, considers the need for expansion, how it is to be carried out, and some of the problems that arise.

A discussion between:
Asa Briggs, Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
Philip Curtin, Professor of African, History University of Wisconsin
Lord James of Rusholme, High Master, Manchester Grammar School; Vice-Chancellor elect, University of York
A.P. Rowe, formerly Vice-Chancellor University of Adelaide

(Summing-up talk by Norman Fisher: June 20)

A play for radio by Sheila Cregeen
with Finlay Currie, Tom Watson, John Laurie, Eithne Dunne and Peter Claughton

John Cunningham, the schoolmaster, called Dr. Fian, Tom Watson; Mother Agnes Sampson, his foster-mother, Eithne Dunne; Mistress Trumbill, at whose house he stays, Gudrun Ure; Sergeant Trumbill, her husband, Walter Carr; Rev. Alexander Craigie, the Minister, Finlay Currie; Andra Seaton, the deputy bailiff, John Laurie; Gelie Duncan, his maidservant, Mairhi Russell; Robert Grierson, a skipper, called Rob the Rotcar, Douglas Storm; James VI, King of Scotland, Peter Claughton; Thomas Kers, attendant to the King, Duncan Mclntyre; Lord Beauty, Laidlaw Dalling; William Hudson, a gentleman, Anthony Viccars; The Warder, Roddy MacMillan; The Waker, Jack Shaw; The Town Crier, Thomas Bowman; Archie Toft, Wilfred Babbage; McQuisten, Julian Somers; Mistress Lorimer, Janet Burnell; Mary, her daughter, called Eva, Annette Crosbie
Produced by Robin MIDGLEY
: second broadcast

DURING THE INTERVAL (9.45-9.55 app.)
Malcolm Arnold
Overture: Tam O'Shanter played by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer on a gramophone record

by Bernard Naylor and Edmund Rubbra sung by the BBC Chorus conducted by Cyril Gell
Bernard Naylor :
God is gone up on high (The
Ascension) (sung in Latin)
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne
(Trinity Sunday)
Edmund Rubbra :
Eternitie
A hymn to God the Father A song
Bernard Naylor :
I will pour out my spirit (Whit-sunday)
Awake, put on strength (Easter
Day)