On the Teaching of Mathematics
The Psychopathology of Arithmetic by JOHN BIGGS of the National Foundation for Educational Research
The learning of mathematics is notoriously prone to ' emotional blockage.' Why should this be? The answer discloses our fundamental uncertainty about the goal of mathematical teaching.
' We are in danger of an unhealthy maladjustment of aim, method, logic, and psychology.'
Second broadcast
Abstract and Concrete, by W. W. Sawyer : October 20

* LYRA STRING QUARTET
Granville Casey (violin) John Crossan (violin) John Linn (viola)
John Mclnulty (cello)

Plato's dialogue arranged by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL from a translation by FRANCIS BIRRELL and SHANE LESLIE
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL t Second broadcast
Robert Eddison broadcasts bv permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust
' Phaedrus ' translated by Kenneth Fawdry : October 23

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Part 1

by STEPHEN SPENDER
3: Restoring Wholeness among Fragments
Mr. Spender believes that to comprehend, imaginatively, the modern experience as a whole, the writer today must stop writing within a fragmentary part of a fragmentary situation.

Part 2

A monthly programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
† NORMAN FEASFY discusses the part of The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier sung by Lotte Lehmann Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and others
Norman Feasey broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Denis Stevens talks about Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique: November 12

Orchestral Trio No. 1, in C major
SUR RADIO
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART on a gramophone record