William Pleeth (cello)
Margaret Good (piano)

A Portrait of King Henry II
Compiled by NESTA PAIN from letters, anecdotes, and reminiscences of those who knew and worked with him among them
Giraldus Cambrensls Walter Map
Peter of Blois and Arnulf of Lisleux
Produced by Nesta Pain
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John Ogdon (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, Meyer Stolow
Conductor, Hugo Rignold
From the Town Hall, Birmingham
Part 1

by Alastair Buchan Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies
Strategic studies are continually evolving and Mr. Buchan has revised some of the views published nearly two years ago in his book N.A.T.O. in the 1960s. In this talk he also argues that the United States military contribution to the Alliance is increasing while American political influence in Europe is declining.

PART 2

Cleeve Barr
Chief Architect to the Ministry of Housing talks to Graeme Shankland architect and planner
The urgent need for more-and better -houses is much on the public conscience. A report by the Central Housing Advisory Committee recommending greatly improved standards for new housing has just been published.
What kind of houses do we need for the future? Can the experience of the School Building Programme be applied to the very different problems of housing? Does industrialisation of building imply uniformity of design? One of a group of programmes on new trends in public architecture

Choir of the Carmelite Priory, Kensington Conductor, John McCarthy
From St. Gabriel's Church. Cricklewood, London

by Philip Hobsbaum
Mr. Hobsbaum believes that the three English poets Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and Isaac Rosenberg , all of whom were killed in the First World War, would have represented a third and a more fruitful alternative to the barren choice between Georgianism and American modernism which faced young English poets in the 1920s.
: second broadcast