Second of two programmes recorded in America by D. G. BRIDSON
Robert Penn Warren discusses his work and remembers his early years in Kentucky. The programme includes readings from some of his later poetry.
Reader.
James Dyrenforth Second broadcast

6: The church of S. Vicente, Lisbon
GERAINT JONES (organ)
POLYPHONIA OF LISBON
Conductor,
MARIO DE SAMPAYO Ribeiro
Including music by Scarlatti, Cabazon, and Cabanilles Introduced by Geraint Jones
Last of six programmes

by L. M. LORING
Professor Challenger, the formidable hero of Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in due course retired. Miss Loring gives an account of his trenchant opinions on moral philosophy. Second broadcast

by Charles Wood starring
Cyril Cusack with Bernard Bresslaw and Ronnie Stevens
' I think sometimes how right it would be if we stayed in a lot of little boxes doing what we can do best and not seeing anybody else for any reason.'
Cast in order of speaking
Produced by PATRICK DROMGOOLE
From the BBC West Region Second broadcast
In his play Prisoner and Escort, broadcast in the Third Programme earlier this year, Charles Wood showed his mastery of military vernacular. In Cowheel Jelly he returns to army life, but in gentler, more melancholy mood.

YEHUDI MENURIN (violin)
EILEEN POULTER (soprano)
THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone)
ST. ANTHONY SINGERS
RAYMOND LEPPARD
(harpsichord continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by NADIA Boulanger
Part 1
Recorded at a public concert on January 17 in the Royal Festival Hall, London
See page 6

LAWRENCE ALLOWAY , who until his appointment last year as curator of the Guggenheim museum in New York was closely connected with avantgarde artists in London, evaluates the use that successive English artists have made of popular art material in their work.

Part 2

Illustrated talk by John Levy
The Icelanders have a tradition of music that has hardly changed since the Middle Ages. With this goes a widespread love of poetry, and the two have combined to form over the centuries a unique body of song.

Sonata in G minor
Haydn Society No. 44 played by SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) on a gramophone record