Introduced by George MacBeth
This edition is devoted to the French novel and cinema and includes Alan Resnais, director of the film L'Annee derniere a Marienbad, in a recorded conversation in French, With questions in English put by Olivier Todd
Christopher Ricks on the novel The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute

A film script by Jean Cocteau
Translated and adapted for radio by Michael Bakewell
with Hugh Burden, Muriel Pavlow, Catherine Dolan, Robert Rietty
Other parts played by Adrian Brine, Jeane le Bars, Fiona Nicholson, Elizabeth Proud, Gillian Webb and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL

Musica Antica e Nuova
Maureen Lehane (contralto) John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Carl Pini (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) James Christie (cello) Celia Bizony (harpsichord)
Director, Celia Bizony

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.
(BBC recording: second broadcast)