Aeolian String Quartet
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Robert Cooper (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

by Renford Bambrough Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge
In the Theaetetus Plato tried and failed to give a definition of knowledge. Renford Bambrough suggests that the failure was inevitable, but that the attempt was a major philosophical achievement.
: second broadcast

by TED HUGHES with music by Alexander Goehr with the Melos Ensemble directed by the composer
Production by Douglas CLEVERDON
: third broadcast
The Wound, which has powerful symbolic undertones, concerns two soldiers, a young private and a sergeant, after the battle has ended. As in a dream, they are making their way through a deserted countryside, and come to a derelict chateau occupied by a houseful of women; the Queen of the women invites the two soldiers to a banquet; the dream becomes a nightmare on the threshold of death.

Die Winterreise
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Gute Nacht: Die Wetterfahne; Gefror'ne Triinen; Erstarrung: Der Lindenbaum: Wasserflut; Auf dem Flusse; RUckblick; Irrlicht; Rast; Friihlingstraum; Einsamkeit: Die Post: Der greise Kopf: Die Krahe; Letzte Hoffnung ; Im Dorfe; Der stiirmische Morgen : Tauschung; Der Wegweiser; Das Wirtshaus : Mut; Die Nebensonnen; Der Leiermann

by James Mellaart Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Istanbul
The site of Chatal Huyiik on the Anatolian plateau has revealed the largest Neolithic settlement so far known in the Near East, with its earliest building levels dating probably from about 7000 B.C.; but its unique feature is the figurative and geometric wall paintings found there. James Mellaart , who is in charge of the excavations, talks about the way Chatal Hiiyiik fits into the prehistoric chronology of this Near Eastern area.

by Constance Keene