Plato's dialogue in a translation by HUGH TREDENNICK
On the day when the hemlock was brought to him Socrates discussed the immortality of the soul and other matters with his friends. Phaedo. who was present, tells the story some years later to a group of Peloponnesians.
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL

BBC CHORUS
Conductor,
PETER GELLHORN
First of seven programmes

It is 100 years since the last major reforms in British administration. W. J. M. Mac KENZIE, Professor of Government in the University of Manchester, discusses the present situation in two talks
1: Is Reform Needed?
Professor Mackenzie diagnoses the malaise from which the national administration has been suffering increasingly since World War II. Is Reform Possible!: February 6

NETHERLANDS STRING Quartet
Nap de Klijn, Jaap Schroder
Paul Godwin , Carel Boomkamp

A story by Tibor Dery
Read by CYRIL SHAPS
This story by one of Hungary's most distinguished contemporary writers was written in 1956. It is a study of the tensions in a communist factory official who lives under a system that makes no allowance for human weakness.
Second broadcast