A series of conversations between speakers primarily concerned with the academic study of ideas and those with practical responsibilities
8:Equality, Education, and Culture
The participants are: Sir Isaiah Berlin
Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford
Lord Gladwvn formerly British Ambassador in Paris
Richard Hoggart
Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leicester
Richard Wollheim
Reader in Philosophy, University of London
George Woodcock
General Secretary of the T.U.C.
Stuart Hampshire
Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic. University of London who leads all the discussions
Among the questions they discuss are: whether our educational system in tact promotes inequality, how far equality of culture is a realistic concept, ana what are the risks of a meritocracy. : second broadcast
A Painting on Wood bv INGMAR BERGMAN
Translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin
Production by JOHN GIBSON
This recorded programme has been made availahle to the BBC through the courtesy of the Swedish Radio, Stockholm.
Willem Mengelberg conducting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Symphony No. 6, in B minor (Pathetique) (Tchaikovsky) recorded in 1937
The Poet's Voice with contributions by Taner Baybars , Isabel Finlayson Thomas Kinsella , John Lehmann
Laurence Lerner. Richard Murphy Peter Porter and Jon Silkin arranged and introduced by George MacBeth and read by the poets themselves