A weekly review of the arts This edition includes
JOHN BETJF. MAN in conversation with ANTHONY THWAITE
MORRIS West in conversation with CHARLES OSBORNE Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

Given before an invited audience in the Shaftesbury Hall, Cheltenham on the occasion of the Cheltenham Festival
ROSEMARY PHILLIPS (reciter)
VIRTUOSO Ensemble
Edward Walker (flute, piccolo) Sidney Fell (clarinet) Wilfred Hambleton (bass clarinet)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Patrick Hailing (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
Conducted by JOHN CAREWE
DENNIS BRAIN WIND ENSEMBLE David Sandeman (flute) Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Cecil James (bassoon) Barry Tuckwell (horn)
DARTINCTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer , Peter Carter Keith Lovell , Michael Evans with Barry Tuckwell (horn) Ian Beers (horn)
Nigel Amherst (double-bass) Part 1

by RICHARD COX
Richard Cox , who has travelled widely in Africa for the Sunday Times, says: 'Single-mindedness is both desirable and inescapable in underdeveloped countries. Put it is time we recognised it for the realpolitik it is-a way of working and thinking politically that is different from our own and is highly developed even if the nations it rules are not.

on the occasion of the Cheltenham Festival
Part 2
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First of six programmes devoted to the verse of John Donne
Marius Coring reads a group of early poem* including:
The Apparition The Sun Rising IVth Elegy
Arranged and introduced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Second broadcast
Vs. Canonised for Love: July 11