from the Cheltenham Festival
See foot of page Part 1
by Laurence Lerner
Mr. Lerner considers the various ways in which novels about the future reflect political and social attitudes about the present. He compares Orwell's !984 and Huxley's Brave New World in terms of their moral philosophies.
Part 2 '
by GÜNTER GRASS
A radio version of the stage play
Noch zehn Minuten bis Buffalo adapted from the German by Christopher Holme with music by Humphrey Searle with a section of the Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer
Production by Christopher HOLME : second broadcast
Paul Daneman broadcasts by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust
Gunter Grass , thirty-four-year-old poet, novelist, artist, and playwright, is outstanding among post-war German writers. His plays are designed as ' entertainments,' combining allegory and the absurd. Noch zehn Minuten bis Buffalo, a one-act farce, has had great success on the Berlin stage.
Piano Trio in A minor played by the Beaux-Arts Trio
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano) on a gramophone record
by C. F. Whitley
Lecturer in Hebrew in University College, North Wales
Dr. Whitley believes that the statement in Genesis I 'And God created man in his own image ' is the first credo of scientific humanism.
: second broadcast