A weekly review of the arts Reviewing Novels
JOHN BOWEN talks to
JOHN LEHMANN , V. S. NAIPAUL ,
GABRIEL FIELDING and JOHN CALDER about current assumptions of critics in England with particular reference to the reception of Mary McCarthy 's new novel The Group
MORAG NOBLE (soprano)
VIRTUOSO ENSEMBLE
Edward Walker (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Edward Selwyn (cor anglais) Basil Tschaikov (clarinet) Sidnev Fell (clarinet) Wilfred Hambleton (bass-clarinet)
Ronald Waller (bassoon) Kenneth Cooper (contra-bassoon)
John Burden (horn)
Andrew McGavin (horn) Dennis Clift (trumpet) Wilfrid Parry
(piano and celesta)
Susan Bradshaw (harmonium) Michael Jeffries (harp) Patrick Hailing (violin) Ernest Scott i violin)
Gwvnne Edwards (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) Conducted by Jacques-Louis MONOD
SCHOLA POLYPHONICA
Director, HENRY WASHINGTON
Part 1
Reflections on the Satanic Double in literature and life by GERAINT V. JONES
Minister of Broomhill Congregational Church, Glasgow 2: The Ultimate Question
The ultimate question is not why particular evils are committed, and how they can be psychologically explained, but why there is evil at all: why it is * there why there is, in Paul Ricoeur 's phrase, a deja-ia du Mal.
Part 2
Given before an Invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed].
Frankel, Second Violin Sonata (Max Rostal ); Skalkottas, Piano Trio (Dumka Trio); Beethoven songs, cantatas by Bach and Buxtehude (Jeannette Sin clair, Marjorie Biggar , Peter Leeming , Philomusica of London, Alan Harverson )
Herman Kahn
Mr. Kahn, now Director of the Hudson Institute, is probably the most controversial strategic analyst in the United States In this programme he first replies to criticisms of his ' icy-rational methods and then uses one of his examples of nuclear accident to demonstrate how violence and tragedy might be exploited to bring about a form of world government. Second broadcast
Today's overseas commodity and financial news. London Stock Market closing report