A weekly review of the arts in this edition
A. ALVAREZ , FRANK KERMOPE , and KARL MILLER discuss VLADIMIR NABOKOV 'S new novel, 'Pale Fire
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
ELISABETH Robinson (soprano)
VIRTUOSO Ensemble:
Edward Walker (flute) George Crozier (flute) Michael Dobson (oboe) Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (clarinet) Ronald Waller ( bassoon) Anthony Judd (bassoon) John Burden (horn)
Andrew McGavin (horn) David Mason (trumpet) Patrick Hailing (violin) Ernest Scott ( violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola) Kenneth Essex (viola) Willem de Mont (cello) Wilfrid Parry
(piano and celesta)
Conducted by JACQUES-Louis Monoe
AMBROSIAN SINGERS directed by JOHN MCCARTHY
Part 1
Military History and Military Journalism
† by NORMAN GIBBS
Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of Oxford
Personal experience may be partly responsible for current interest in military history and in some recent controversies about the last war. Professor Gibbs argues that this feeling of involvement must not commit either author or reader to a point of view before the evidence is examined.
Part 2
Before an audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale, London Tickets obtainable on application to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
by Harry Martinson translated from the Swedish by HUGH MACDIARMID and ELSPETH HARLEY SCHUBERT
Fourth of five readings by RICHARD BEBB , OLIVE GREGG and DENYS HAWTHORNE Produced by D. G. BRIDSON
Last programme :
Friday at 9.55 p.m.
Trio in D minor
ISAAC STERN (violin) LEONARD Rose (cello)
EUGENE ISTOMIN (piano)
Isaac Stem. Leonard Rose , and Eugene Istomin broadcast by arrangement with Harold Holt , Ltd. Second broadcast