A weekly review of the arts This edition is devoted to
The International Beat Movement and includes
ALEXANDER Trocchi , author of Cain's Book, in conversation with ANTHONY CURTIS
Dom PIERRE-SYLVESTRE HOUEDARD , O.S.B., poet and critic, in conversation with GEORGE MACBETH
BBC CHORUS
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN with MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto)
ARCHIE CAMDEN (bassoon) DEIRDRE DUNDAS-GRANT
(bassoon)
ALAN CIVIL , IAN BEERS
IAN HARPER , JOHN MANNERS
(horns)
SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp)
COLLN KINGSLEY and MALCOLM BINNS (two pianos)
Given before an invited audience In BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets should be sent to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope
A group of four talks
3: How it Looks from Peking by EDGAR SNOW
The Chinese viewpoint in the dispute with Moscow is discussed by Edgar Snow , the American writer whose personal acquaintance with Mao Tse-tung and other Chinese Communist leaders goes back to the 'thirties, and who has recently paid another visit to Peking.
Last talk in this series. by John Midgley : March 21
Part 2: Messiaen
Visions de l'Amen, for two. pianos first broadcast performance in this country
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets 11: The Bow (continued) and Beginning of Battle
Books XXI and XXII
Translated by ALISTAIR ELLIOT Read by DENIS MCCARTHY Series devised by Louis MacNeice
Produced by ANTHONY THWAITE Second broadcast
' The Killing of the Wooers ' translated by Hugh Gordon Porteus and ' Recognition by Penelope ' translated by Peter Green: March 18