A weekly review of the arts
In this edition on State Aid for the Arts
NIGEL J. ABERCROMBIE , the Secretary General of the Arts Council, discusses his recently published Annual Report with JOHN BOWEN , JEREMY NOBLE, and T. G. ROSENTHAL
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

given before an invited audience in the Queen's Hall,
Leicester University
ROSEMARY PHILLIPS (contralto)
NEW Music ENSEMBLE
Rainer Schuelein (alto flute) Eric Allen (vibraphone)
Patricia Brady (xylophone) Richard Rodney Bennett (percussion)
Cornelius Cardew (guitar) Isabel Smith (viola)
Conducted by JOHN CAREWE
AEOLIAN STRING Quartet
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Part 1

Studies in the Middle Ages
4: The English Vernacular in the early centuries First of two talks by ELIZABETH SALTER
Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
Before the Norman Conquest, English poetry and prose had reached a high level of sophisticated excellence. After the Norman disturbance a few well-written English pieces emerged in the thirteenth century.

Part 2
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† Denis VAUCHAN , who was for some time assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham , talks about the way in which various great conductors approached orchestral rehearsals
His illustrations include excerpts from rehearsals by Toscanini, Walter, and Beecham. followed by an interlude at 10.56