† AEOLIAN String QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Robert Cooper (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

Translated and read by W. S. MERWIN
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is regarded in Latin America as one of the great figures in a great age of Hispanic poetry. The poems in this selection are translated from the three volumes Residence on Earth, published between 1934 and 1945. 1 Second broadcast

on Record
WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord)
Scarlatti Sonatas
G minor (L.338) D major (L.208)
E flat major (L.142) F minor (L.475) F major (L.479)
Couperin
Pieces de clavecin
La Commere Le Moucheron
Le Dodo ou, I'Amour au berceau
Musette de Taverny
Les folies franchises ou les dominos
Recorded in 1934

... ' reality '-one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes.... (Vladimir Nabokov On a book entitled Lolita ')
FRANK KERMODE introduces recorded conversations with Iris MURDOCH , GRAHAM GREENE Angus WILSON
Ivy COMPTON -BURNETT
C P . SNOW , JOHN WAIN MURIEL SPARK
Professor Kermode has asked these novelists to consider the relationship between ' reality ' and the worlds of their novels. tSecond broadcast

GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA
(soprano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Erich Gruenberg
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1 Cradle Song
The Magpie Night
Where art thou, little star? Ragamuffin
On the Dnieper

† ANNE Ross tells how she discovered close links between two ancient Celtic traditions: the cult of the human head and the faith in the powers of springs and wells
George Peele 's short poem from his Old Wives' Tale. which provides the title for the talk, reflects this combined belief.

Part 2

A Fragment of Autobiography by EDA LORD adapted from her book published last spring recalling a childhood spent in the American west and south-west fifty years ago with Hilda Kriseman
Marcella Spencer Mavis Villiers
Robert Ayres Marvin Kane
Production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Third broadcast