Rachel Carson 's book draws attention to the dangers inherent in the use of chemical pesticides
What are the practical implications of her case for us in Britain? How much do sciendsts really know about the risks to human and wild life? How well is the use of these chemicals controlled, and the public protected and informed? Is there a realistic alternative to chemical pesticides?
† W. T. WILLIAMS
Professor of Botany,
University of Southampton conducts an enquiry into these issues
Other speakers include:
Dr. J. M. BARNES
F. C. BAWDEN ,
F.R.S. RACHEL CARSON
DR. E. G. Cox ,
F.R.S. Roy HAY , H. G. HUCKLE
DR. NORMAN MOORE , W. C. Moore
DR. PALMER NEWBOULD
PROFESSOR O. W. RICHARDS , F.R.S.
SIR HAROLD SANDERS DR. H. B. STONER
PROFESSOR R. L. WAIN. F.R.S.
Third of six programmes devoted to the verse of JOHN DONNE
Alan Wheatley reads
Satires 1 and IV
Introduced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
†Second broadcast
A Bracelet of Bright Hairs July 24
on Record
Bach
Prelude and Fugue In C major
(S.545)
Fantasia and Fugue In 0 minor (S.542)
Prelude and Fugue In F mlnoc
(S.S34) played by ALBERT SCHWEITZER organ of All Hallows Church. Barking-by-the-Tower. London Recorded In 1935
in an interview with HENRY MAYHEW
Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor
Whistling Billy...ANTHONY SELBY Henry Mayhew. CARLETON HOBBS Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON Second broadcast
sung by ROBERT GARTSIDE (tenor) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
