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A. ALVAREZ , FRANK KERMOPE , and KARL MILLER discuss VLADIMIR NABOKOV 'S new novel, 'Pale Fire
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Alvarez
Unknown:
Frank Kermope
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov
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

Contributors

Soprano:
Elisabeth Robinson
Flute:
Edward Walker
Flute:
George Crozier
Oboe:
Michael Dobson
Clarinet:
Wilfred Hambleton
Bassoon:
Ronald Waller
Bassoon:
Anthony Judd
Horn:
John Burden
Horn:
Andrew McGavin
Horn:
David Mason
Violin:
Ernest Scott
Viola:
Gwynne Edwards
Viola:
Kenneth Essex
Cello:
Willem de Mont
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry
Conducted By:
Jacques-Louis Monoe
Directed By:
John McCarthy

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.

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Gibbs

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.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Martinson
Unknown:
Hugh MacDiarmid
Unknown:
Elspeth Harley
Unknown:
Richard Bebb
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
D. G. Bridson

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

Contributors

Violin:
Isaac Stern
Piano:
Isaac Stem.
Piano:
Leonard Rose
Piano:
Eugene Istomin
Arrangement With:
Harold Holt

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