Plato's dialogue
Translation by KENNETH FAWDRY
This most idyllic of the dialogues takes place on the banks of the Ilissus and contains the myths of the cicada and of the white and dun horses of the soul. The ostensible subject is the nature of rhetoric. with MALCOLM HAYES
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Second broadcast
I Apology ' in a translation by Hugh Tredennick : Nov. 26
† THE FINE ARTS QUARTET
Leonard Sorkin (violin)
Abram Loft (violin)
Irving Ilmer (viola)
George Sopkin (cello)
Fourth of six programmes including Haydn's Op. 20 quartets, and Schoenberg's string trio, Ode to Napoleon, and string quartets.
Haydn's Quartet Op. 20 No. and Schoenberg's Quartet No. 4, played by the Aeolian String Quartet: December 5
This Island Now by G. M. Carstairs Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Edinburgh 2: The First Years
Professor Carstairs speaks on the contrast in the experiences of early childhood in different social classes in Great Britain. Sunday's broadcast (Home)
Next lecture, Vicissitudes of Adolescence: November 25 (Home), November 26 (Third) These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener '
† JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano)
THE BASIL LAM ENSEMBLE Patrick Hailing (violin) Marjorie Lavers (violin) Peter Hailing (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)
Trio-Sonata No. 7, in C major
(set of 10) An Evening Hymn
Trio-Sonata No. 8, in G minor
(set of 10) The Plaint (The Fairy Queen)
Eighth of thirteen programmes including all Purcell's trio-sonatas
A narrative poem with an epilogue by Richard MURPHY
Read by Denys Hawthorne and Richard Murphy
On a winter night in 1927, between the island of Inishbofin and the harbour of Cleggan on the west coast of Ireland, the fishing boats were caught in a sudden storm. Sixteen men were lost from the village of Rossadillick, nine from Bonn. f Second broadcast