Helen Watts (contralto)
Boys from Highgate School Director of Music, Edward Chapman
Orpington Junior Singers Conductor, Sheila Mossman
London Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Norman Del Mar From the Royal Albert Hall, London Part 1

An Obstacle to Understanding by Ninian Smart
H. G. Wood Professor in the Department of Theology at Birmingham University
Belief in reincarnation is one of the central issues dividing Eastern from Western culture and religion. Professor Smart sees here a major obstacle to mutual understanding; and he explores some of the problems that arise when one sets out to evaluate the 'truth' of such a doctrine.

Part 2 continued

by ALEXANDER POPE
A reading in four parts by Michael Hordem
EPISTLE 3

played by Hilde Somer

by Denis Donoghue Lecturer in English at
University College, Dublin
Dr. Donoghue argues that dramatists like Beckett and Pinter have come close to refining their work out of existence by their concentration on ' purely verbal events ' to the exclusion of dramatic situation and real dialogue between characters.
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