A weekly review of the arts
This edition is devoted to
The Arts in Africa and includes
LEWIS NKOSI in conversation with DAN JACOBSON about African writing
AMINU ABDULLAHI in conversation with CHARLES Fox about African music and modern jazz
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH on African painting
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

ANDOR FOLDES (piano)
Members of the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA William Bennett (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe)
Edward Selwyn (cor anglais) Martin Gatt (bassoon)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin)
Quintin Ballardie (viola) Harold Harriott (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello) Anita Lasker (cello)
Stuart Knussen (double-bass)
Directed by ARNOLD GOLDSEROUGH who also plays the harpsichord
Part 1: Bartok
Piano Sonata
Mikrokosmos, Book 6
Free variations
Subject and reflection From the diary of a fly Divided arpeggios
Minor seconds, major sevenths
Chromatic invention Ostinato March
Six dances in Bulgarian rhythm

An analysis of D. H. Lawrence 's judgment on Jane Austen by LAURENCE LERNER

Part 2: Bach
The Musical Offering
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.

Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
Translated by Alistair Elliot
Read by Denis McCarthy

(Second broadcast)
("The Storm" translated by Ted Hughes and "Nausicoa" translated by Peter Green: Feb 6)