A weekly review of the arts This edition includes
A conversation between Stuart Hampshire and J.G. Weightman on The Marquis de Sade Introduced by George Macbeth
Sylvia Plath reviews the anthology Contemporary American Poetry (1962) edited by Donald Hall

PHILIP LEVI (piano)
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano)
VIRTUOSO ENSEMBLE
Edward Walker (flute) George Crozier (flute) Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe) Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (clarinet) Ronald Waller (bassoon) John Burden (horn)
Andrew McGavin (horn) Denis Clift (trumpet)
Michael Jefferies (horn) Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Patrick Hailing (violin) Ernest Scott (violin)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Stephen Shingles (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
Conducted by Jacques-Louis MONOD
Part 1
Busoni's second, third, and fourth Sonatinas played by Philip Challis : next Saturday

by JOHN HATCH
Commonwealth correspondent of the New Statesman
In this talk John Hatch , who was until recently Director of ExtraMural Studies in the University of Sierra Leone, looks beyond transient factors like racial prejudice to some of the very real problems facing the new states of Africa in their search for a common purpose and identity.

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Requests for tickets should be addressed to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Elizabeth Harwood broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
Next Invitation Concert, January 24: Smetana, String Quartet No. 2; Haydn, String Quartet Op. 64 No. 5; piano works by Pousseur and Boulez: Smetana Quartet; Marcelle Merccnier

by A BARRISTER
On the whole we rather like criminals, or at least side with them. Why? Second broadcast

Ballet Suite: Les Biches played by the PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE on a gramophone record