RALPH HOLMES (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader. Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT NORMAN DEL MAR
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1: conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

by ARTHUR MIZENER
Professor of English at Cornell University, New York
J. D. Salinger 's stories about the Glass family have been appearing intermittently since 1948, three years before the publication of ' The Catcher in the Rye.' In his talk Professor Mizener discusses the overall pattern of the Glass stories and relates Salinger's work to a major tradition of American literature and society-what Professor Mizener describes as ' the effort to define what one might call the Good American.'
Recorded for the BBC at station w.H.c.u., Ithaca, New York

Part 2 conducted by Norman Del Mar conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

by Eugene Ionesco
Translated by Donald Watson
with Raymond Huntley and Patricia Heneghan
Produced by R. D. Smith
(Third broadcast)

'The Lesson' and 'The Bald Prima Donna' marked the emergence in the 'fifties of the 'Theatre of the Absurd.' But the Absurd, however funny, is by no means nonsense; it is the counterchange of the Commonplace - and lonesco's serious purpose is to expose the bondage and even the menace of the commonplace. Above all, he wants us to realise how far we are beset by the cliches of the language in which we commonly converse and the tyranny to which we are subjected, like the pupil in 'The Lesson,' when language is used as a weapon of domination-or perhaps only of mass-persuasion.