Leon Fleisher (piano) Janet Craxton (oboe)
Oromonte String Trio Perry Hart (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)
Part 1
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Tickets may be obtained by applying to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Werner Pelz speaks about the Austrian author Robert Musil and in particular about his novel The Man Without Qualities
Mr. Pelz compares the Anglo-French tradition of writing, where man is measured against society, the possible and the obvious, with the Russian-German one, to which Musil belongs, where man is measured against the impossible and the elusive.

PART 2

Translated and read by W. S. MERWIN
The Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, is regarded in Latin America as one of the great figures in a great age of Hispanic poetry. The poems in this selection are translated from the three volumes Residence on Earth, published between 1934 and 1945.

Madrigals sung and played by an ensemble directed by Nadia Boulanger
Hor che'l ciel e la terra
Chiome d'oro
Amor (Lamento della ninfa) Lasciatemi morire
Ecco mormorar l'onde
Zefiro torna on a gramophone record