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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

Contributors

Harp:
Osian Ellis
Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Conducted By:
Peter Racine Fricker
Conducted By:
Michael Tippett

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.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hume
Unknown:
Bernard Williams
Unknown:
Bernard Williams

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

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Adamov
Adapted by?Producer:
William Glen-Doepel
Chief Inspector:
Raf de la Torre
Woman Journalist:
Aileen Harte
Junior Clerk:
Jonathan Scott
First Gentleman:
Godfrey Kenton
Second Gentleman:
Malcolm Hayes
Third Gentleman:
Philip Leaver
Fourth Gentleman:
Earle Grey
Society Woman:
Cecile Chevreau
First Policeman:
Michael Shaw
Second Policeman:
Peter Pratt
Hotel Manageress:
Barbara Mitchell
Jeanne:
Patricia Heneghan

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?

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Chapman

Third Programme

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