Le Sacre du Printemps
A commentary by the composer on the history of Le Sacre followed by a performance in which he conducts the Columbia Symphony Orchestra on a gramophone record

Frank Kermode introduces recorded conversations with: Iris Murdoch , Graham Greene
Angus Wilson
Ivy Compton-Burnett
C. P. Snow, John Wain
Muriel Spark
... ' 'reality' (one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes) ... Vladimir Nabokov
On a book entitled' Lolita '
Professor Kermode has asked these novelists to consider the relationship between ' reality' and the world of their novels.

Choir of the Carmelite Priory, Kensington
Conductor, John McCarthy
Nicholas Danby (organ)
From St. Gabriel's Church. Cricklewood. London

1: Rethinking in the West
A discussion between Robert E. Osgood
Washington Centre of Foreign Policy Research and Arthur Lee Burns
Department of Political Science, Australian National University. Canberra
A year ago President Kennedy announced his intention to increase the flexibility of American defence policy. The speakers discuss his reasons and comment on various aspects of this policy-invulnerable nuclear weapons systems, conventional strength, guerrilla forces.
: second broadcast