A weekly review of the arts with interviews and discussions
Introduced by George MacBeth This edition includes
Michael Tippett in a recorded conversation with Jeremy Noble about his opera in progress. King Priam

A Japanese Noh Play
Part 1
The medieval play by KWANAMI Translated by Arthur Waley with Fay Compton as Ono no Komachl Michael Aldridge as the Priest Hugh Burden as the Chorus
Music and excerpts from a Japanese performance recorded in the studios of NHK. Tokyo, by members of the Kanze school
Introduction written and arranged by Geoffrey Bownas
9.10 app. Matyas Seiber
Elegy for viola and) small orchestra played by Cecil Aronowitz (viola) London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer on a gramophone record
9.20 app.
Part 2
The modern play on the same theme by YUKIO MISHIMA
Translated by Donald Keene
Adapted for radio by David Thomson with Fay Compton as Komachl Michael Aldridge as the Poet
Programmes arranged by Geoffrey Bownas
Production by DAVID THOMSON
: second broadcast

Aeolian String Quartet Sydney Humphreys (violin) Trevor Williams (violin) Watson- Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
English String Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello)

JOHN KENNEDY of the A.R.C. Unit of Insect Physiology, Cambridge, deplores the current neglect of Natural History. The laws by which we might hope to predict and control our biological future cannot be found in the laboratory alone. If only naturalists were also experimentalists ...
: second broadcast
A discussion between John Kennedy and James Beament : July 11