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A series of conversations between speakers primarily concerned with the academic study of ideas and those with practical responsibilities.

Participants in this last discussion are: John Bowen, author of the novel based on advertising, Storyboard; Jo Grimond, M.P., Leader of the Liberal Party; Denis Healey, M.P.; Richard Hoggart,Senior Lecturer in English, Leicester University; Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor in Modern History, Oxford University; Stuart Hampshire, Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic, London University, who has led all the discussions.

Command or control of the power to persuade others may be one ot the great dangers to equality. In this conversation the speakers explore some of the organs of persuasion and discuss their social implications.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Bowen
Unknown:
Jo Grimond
Unknown:
Richard Hoggart
Unknown:
Hugh Trevor-Roper

A partly political musical for radio
Words by DONALD COTTON
Music by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Other parts plaved by members ot the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by Douglas Cleverdon Wilfred Parry (pianist)
Sinfonia of London, with a section of the Ambrosian Singers conducted by the composer
: second broadcast
Max Adrian broadcasts by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare
Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, r^eirn
Miller by permission of Sadler Wells
Opera Company; Alan Dudley is in My
Fair Lady 'at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Contributors

Music By:
Humphrey Searle
Production By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Pianist:
Wilfred Parry
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Polvdeuces:
Max Adrian
Orpheus:
Kevin Miller
Euridice:
Marian Grimaldi
Pelias:
Alan Dudley
Jason:
Julian Orchard
Medea:
Anna Pollak
Heracles:
Frank Duncan
Reporter:
Donald Cotton

Sonata in G major
(Havdn Society No. 40)
Two pieces for a Musical Clock Sonata in B flat major
(Haydn Society No. 41) played by Edith Vogel
Twenty-first in a series of weekly recta to include all Haydn's 52 piano sonatas.
Nos. 42 and 43, Kathleen Long : May 28

Contributors

Played By:
Edith Vogel
Unknown:
Kathleen Long

A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
Automatism bv Rupert Cross
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford How far is automatism a defence to a criminal charge? And can it really be distinguished from a plea of insanity?
Dr Cross considers these questions and refers to an important decision last autumn of the House of Lords. : second broadcast
Second talk on insanity in criminal law, June 5: Professor A. L. Goodhart on Drunkenness and Insanity.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor A. L. Goodhart

Third Programme

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