Stefan Askenase (piano)
Scherzo No. 3, in C sharp minor
Nocturne in F sharp minor
Op. 48 No.2
Three Mazurkas
C major. Op. 24 No. 2; A minor. Op. 17 No. 4; G major, Op. 50 No.
Three Ecossaises
D major; G major; D flat major
Three Waltzes
G flat major. Op. 70 No. 1; D flat major. Op. 64 No. 1; A flat major, Op. 34 No.

Recordings of mechanical musical instruments collected and introduced by Fritz Spiegl.
Henry VIII's automatic spinet, 'an instrument that goeth with a whele, without playinge yppon,' does not survive, but similar instruments from the time of Shakespeare will be heard in this programme; also a barrel organ that plays operatic pieces by Handel, Arne, and others, a Mozartian mechanical organ and a Napoleonic trumpet machine. Such instruments provide fascinating evidence of how the music of the past actually sounded.
Programme produced by Roger Fiske : second broadcast

Elisabeth Robinson (soprano) Frederick Kiddle (viola)
Philomusica of London Leader, Carl Pini
Conductor, Granville Jones

First part of a selection made and introduced by Michel Butor

Poems by Villon, Maurice Sceve, du Bellay Ronsard, Agrippa d'Aubigne and Jean de Sponde read by Jacqueline Morane and Yves Furet
Translations by Naomi Lewis, G.W. Ireland, and John Petrie read by Alan Wheatley
(BBC recording)

Three programmes devoted to M. Butar's selection are to be followed by further programmes devoted to the selections of Jacques Prevert and Jean Cocteau.
(The second programme: January 15)

violin
Joseph Seiger (piano)

New York Painter
Self Portrait Part 2
' You try to paint for yourself but there's a big tide and you go along with it. I'm being dragged, I keep saying. But they keep pulling.'
Second of two talka

A play for radio by PETER GURNEY
Music by Humphrey Searle with Margaret Rawlings , Robert Eddisoa
Voices of gravestones. dolphin. unicorn, griffin, winged horse, pelican, roof-boss, dog-tooth, gargoyles, churchgoers, boys. and searchers by John Cazabon , William Eedle
Denis Goacher. James Thomason Peter Wilde , Gabriel Woolf Beryl Calder , Sheila Grant
Eva Haddon , and June Tobin with Ian Wallace (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer
Production by RAYMOND RAIKES
: fourth broadcast

Philip Hope-Wallace introduces excerpts from the operetta by MESSAGER with the Raymond St. Paul Chorus and the Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jules Gressier on gramophone records