played by the Dartington String Quartet Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)

A broadcast version of six
Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford by Christopher Hill
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
2: Francis Bacon
' My way of discovering the sciences goes far to level men's wits: and leaves but little to individual excellence, because it performs everything by the surest rules and demonstrations.' Mr. Hill traces Bacon's influence in politics and education through Pym, Comenius, Cromwell and others.

Sonata in D major
(Haydn Society No. 42)
Sonata in A flat major
(Haydn Society No. 43) played by Kathleen Long
Twenty-second in a series of weekly recitals which will include all Haydn's fifty-two piano sonatas.

MICHAEL TIPPETT introduces his new opera which is to be broadcast tomorrow night

Christiane van Acker (mezzo-soprano)
Michel Podolski (lute)