Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 played by the Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
: second broadcast
Op. 135: Friday, 10.30

A selection of extracts from the best interviews broadcast during the year including
Aaron Copland and Jeremy Noble
Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite
Angus Wilson and John Bowen
Alan Seymour and Charles Osborne
L. S. Lowry and T. G. Rosenthal
Minos Volanakis and Louis MacNeice
Luchino Visconti and Arthur Boyars
Introduced by George MacBeth

Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick (two pianos)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz PART 1

Three talks by Peter Laslett Lecturer in History in the University of Cambridge 3: The Social Revolution of our time and in our country
Peter Laslett discusses the changes between 1901 and 1951 which have been very closely linked with war and peace, prosperity and depression. The fall of the middle class and victory of the working class are considered and criticised.

PART 2

The last of six programmes devoted to the verse of JOHN DONNE
Hugh Burden reads a selection of Divine Poems and Holy Sonnets Introduced by Rayner Heppenstall

Peter Pears (tenor)
Julian Bream (lute)
Benjamin Britten (piano) Me. me. and none but me Auflosung
In darkness let me dwell Gesang des Harfners. i Fine knacks for ladies Der Musensohn
Sorrow, stay
Erster Verlust
Hark, hark the lark
(Horch, horch die Lerch ')
Come away, come, sweet love Mein!
Away with these self-loving lada Come. heavy sleep Nacht und Traume
Programme introduced by Peter Pears