DEREK PARKER. in the first of two programmes compiled from the BBC Sound Archives, introduces recordings of writers talking about their craft and in particular the reasons for writing, the difficulties of technique, and the nature of inspiration
The voices and opinions include those of: E. M. Forster
Elizabeth Bowen
John Heath Stubbs
Thomas Mann
Hugh Walpole T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Joyce Cary
Wyndham Lewis
Archibald MacLeish
Somerset Maugham Robert Frost
Ivy Compton-Burnett Charles Causley Ronald Bottrall
James Stephens James Kirkup Edith Sitwell
W. B. Yeats
Christopher Isherwood Rose Macaulay
Robert Browning
Produced by JOHN POWELL

by Michael Senior
In the Thaws' home In Basing-stoke a visitor, Mr. Ruscus, comments on the dog's suitability as a coffee table. Following up his suggestion, the Thaws find that, in spite of his definite views, the visitor was wrong. They make him pay the logical price. with Stephen Murray as The Visitor
Characters:
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
To be repeated on January 28

STERN-ROSE-ISTOMIN TRIO Isaac Stern (violin) Leonard Rose (cello)
Eugene Istomin (piano)
Recorded from a public concert at the Royal Festival Hall on December 11. 1961: second broadcast
The Trio broadcast by arrangement with Harold Holt Ltd.
Second of four weekly programmes including chamber music by Mendelssohn
Quartet, Op. 13: January 12

An Old Woman's Reflections translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis edited for broadcasting by W. R. Rodgers
Read by Mary O'Farrell
Third of four readings