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' I believe that the business of education is to set up in the student certain behavioural patterns.'
B. F. SKINNER
Professor of Psychology Harvard University is well known in this country as a pioneer of the teaching machine movement and as a leading behaviourist
DONALD BROADBENT of the M.R.C. Unit of Applied Psychology, Cambridge questions him on the scientific basis of these teaching aids, and on some fundamental tenets of behaviourism Second broadcast: postponed from
April 11

Contributors

Unknown:
B. F. Skinner
Unknown:
Donald Broadbent

A review by PATRIC DICKINSON
Last of three programmes in which he discusses the speaking of poetry, with illustrations chosen from gramophone records issued in recent years The programme includes readings by W. H. Auden. John Betjeman
Cyril Cusack , John Gielgud Christopher Hassall
Carleton Hobbs and Robert Speaight Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.25

Contributors

Review By:
Patric Dickinson
Unknown:
W. H. Auden.
Unknown:
John Betjeman
Unknown:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Christopher Hassall
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Robert Speaight

conducts
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JANET BAKER (contralto)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
CHOIR OF EALING
GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS Conductor, John Railton
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Leader, Hugh Bean
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pita
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1: Mozart
Symphony No. 25, in G minor
(K.183)
Aria: Al desio di chi t'adora
(Le nozze di Figaro)
Masonic Funeral Music

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Janet Baker
Conductor:
John Railton
Leader:
Hugh Bean
Chorus-Master:
Wilhelm Pita

MICHAEL Podro talks about the kind of entertainment offered by the abstract reliefs of Ben Nicholson and Kurt Schwitters
An exhibition of new works by Ben Nicholson is on view at the Marlborough New London Gallery and at Gimpel Fils. London

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Podro
Unknown:
Ben Nicholson
Unknown:
Kurt Schwitters
Unknown:
Ben Nicholson

A play for radio by Rhys Adrian with Maurice Denham and Betty Hardy
' With the house as large as it is, and with just the two of us living here; well, it's just that most of the rooms are unlivcd in ... have that unlived-in look.'
Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Adrian
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Produced By:
Michael Bakewell
Young Man:
Keith Williams
Husband:
Maurice Denham
Wife:
Betty Hardy
Clergyman:
Denys Hawthorne
Announcer:
Will Leighton

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