A weekly review of the arts with interviews and discussions
Introduced by George MacBeth
This edition includes:
Philip Larkin in a recorded conversation with Anthony Thwaite and Paul Mayersberg on 'le gag' in the new French cinema with particular reference to the film "Breathless" at the Academy Cinema, London.
by Robert Pinget
Translated and adapted for radio by Barbara Bray
With Robert Eddison and Vivienne Chatterton
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Bach
played by John Clegg (piano)
(BBC recording)
Second of three programmes
(Variations on a theme of Mozart, played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra July 19)
by Ninian Smart, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Religion, King's College, London.
Mr. Smart considers why it is that a growing number of people in the West - and not least in this country - reject the religious tradition of their own Christian civilisation in favour of what the East has to offer them.
(second broadcast)