A series of four programmes To some extent the past is always used as a deposit of experience or wisdom. But attitudes towards it vary from time to time, and also in different spheres of human activity. Some of the inheritance -in the form of ceremonies and institutions-is common to all spheres; some is craft-knowledge. At present there is, it seems, a fairly general impatience with tradition. What is it that the impatient ones want to reject? Can they do it? Frank Kermode discusses such questions, with people variously expert in the arts and professions.
4: Tradition and SocietyIn this final programme
FRANK KERMODE , Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Manchester presents conversations with HUGH TREVOR-ROPER , Regius Professor of Modern History. University of Oxford
THE LATE RT. HON. JOHN STRACHEY , M.P., author of The Strangled Cry
MAX GLUCKMAN , Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester and summarises his conclusions
Sequence
ETHEL SEMSER (soprano) YVONNE LORIOD (piano) A CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Directed by RUDOLF ALBERT on a gramophone record
John Lehmann Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
tTHE BEAUX Arts Trio
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Mcnahem Pressler (piano)
Trio in C major (K.548).Mozart
Trio in F minor, Op. 65. Dvorak
A reading from
SIR JOHN HARINGTON 'S translation of the poem by LODOVICO ARIOSTO
Introduced by J. M. COHEN Reader, HUGH BURDEN
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