from the Cheltenham Festival
Part 1

from the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music

FROM THE TOWN HALL in association with the Cheltenham Festival
Dartington String Quartet
COLIN SAUER violin KEITH LOVELL viola
PETER CARTER violin MICHAEL EVANS cello
WITH Colin Bradbury clarinet, Katharina Wolpe piano
Part 1 at 7.30 Piano Quartet in G minor (K.478) MOZART String Quartet (1962) HUGH WOOD first performance: commissioned for the occasion by the BBC
Part 2 at 8.35 Contrasts for violin, clarinet, and piano BARTOK String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95...BEETHOVEN

by James Fawcett
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford All international organisations have written constitutions, and most have to make recommendations to governments and sometimes decisions which bind governments. Mr. Fawcett discusses the role of legal adviser to these organisations.

Part 2

by VERNON SCANNELL
The verse narration spoken by VERNON SCANNELL
Produced by RAYNER HEPPIENSTALL
Vernon Scannell was once a first-class amateur boxer. He remembers the nervous ordeal he faced as a youth of sixteen waiting to box in the final bout of the Junior Championships in a famous London stadium of the thirties. He remembers, too, another fight: the conflict between two aspects of his temperament ...
: second broadcast

Handel: Cantata
Dalla guerra amoroso
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Edith Picht-Axenfeld (harpsichord continuo)
Irmgard Poppen (cello continuo)
Bach: Cantata No. 211
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata)
Lisa Otto (soprano) Josef Traxel (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Karlheinz Zoller (flute) Strings of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Heinz Friedrich Hartig (harpsichord continuo)
Irmgard Poppen (cello continuo) Conducted by Karl Forster on gramophone records

by Richard Gregory
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Cambridge
Suppose a man born blind, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal. Suppose them now placed on a table, and the blind man made to see. Query: whether, by his sight alone, he could now tell which was which.
Richard Gregory and Jean Wallace recently conducted experiments which provide an answer to this famous philosophical question.
: second broadcast