BBC Northern Orchestra.
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Andrzej Panufnik

A dialogue on race relations by GERALD HANLEY
Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES who writes
' The imaginary conversation, once a classic form in letters for the discussion of controversial matter, is now widely used in radio. In A Voice from the Top Gerald Hanley has adapted it to the subject of race relations, but with a notable difference. The usual method is to project earnest thinkers who look at the problem under review from philosophical heights. Air. Hanley stays on the ground and gives us the discussion, not as it ideallv should be, but as it might occur on the streets of London ... His discussion offers the cure of laughter to a great evil.'

Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamjn Britten (piano)
Part 1

An argument for the uncertainty principle in religion by Ninian Smart
Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Religion. King's College, London
If there is religious truth, why is it M obscure and apparently impossible to determine with final certainty? Admittedly, it is a difficult business; but the speaker contends that so far from arguing against religious truth this state of affairs is precisely what we ought to expect in that connection.

Part 2

George Barker introduces a selection of his own recent poems read by himself and Anthony Jacobs

Friedrich Wuhrer (piano)
Second of three piano recitals including music by Schubert