Peter Pears (tenor) Osian Ellis (harp)
Maureen Lehane (contralto)
Ipswich Co-operative Girls' Choir
Conductor, Valda Plucknett
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Peter Racine Fricker and Michael Tippett PART 1 first performance
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, as part of the Aldeburgh Festival
Six talks on David Hume
6: Hume on Religion by Bernard Williams Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of London
In his lifetime Hume was known as an atheist. Bernard Williams discusses the nature and extent of Hume's unbelief and its connection with his philosophy.
PART 2
by Arthur Adamov
(See below)
Translated by Peter Meyer
with Maurice Denham as the Professor and
Hugh Burden as the Narrator
This play was first performed in France in 1953 and is a short, claustrophobic study of the extent to which we depend on others for the sense of our own identity.
In the Third Programme
Piano Concerto No. 1, in E flat major Sviatoslav Richter London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kiril Kondrashin on a gramophone record
by Dennis Chapman , Ph.D.
Berkeley Bye-Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Something of a ferment pervades the academic world: remuneration is considered unsatisfactory and grants for research inadequate. The rapid advance of science has altered the research situation in the universities-gone are the days of string and sealirg wax-and Dr. Chapman raises the pertinent question : where should we look for the best fundamental research-the universities, research institutes, or industry?