A weekly review of the arts ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG , the American artist, in conversation with BRYAN ROBERTSON ; EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH on Rauschenberg and his New York contemporaries
LARRY RIVERS and DAVID SYLVESTER on the work of Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg 's drawings, paintings, and combines is at the Whitechapel Gallery; new paintings by Mark Rothko at the New London Gallery Produced by Philip French

CATHY BERBERIAN (mezzo-soprano)
FRANCIS PIERRE (harp)
JACQUES CASTAGNER (flute) Guy DEPLUS (clarinet) PIERRE CHEVAL (viola) JEAN HUCHOT (cello)
JEAN-CLAUDE CASADESUS (percussion)
DIEGO MASSON (percussion)
Conducted by LuCIANO BERIO
ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord)
Part 1: Berio
Chamber Music, for voice, clarinet, cello, and harp
Strings in the earth and air;
Monotone; Winds of May (James Joyce )
8.42* Sequenza II, for harp first broadcast performance in this country
8.55* Circles, for voice, harp, and percussion
(poems by e. e. cummings)
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].

by JOHN WREN-LEWIS
The recently published PAUL REPORT on the Deployment and Payment of the Clergy argues the case for far-reaching reforms. But how can the Church know what reforms are needed unless it first addresses itself to the question: in a largely secularised society, what are clergymen to be deployed for?

Part 2
in this country
Medieval music (Pro Musica Sacra, conductor
Bruno Turner ); songs by Wolf and Roman Vlad (Marilyn Tyler, Ernest Lush); Beethoven, Sonata Op. 101 (Peter Wallfisch)

A. ALVAREZ discusses the work of the American poet who died in London early last year
The programme includes excerpts from an interview with Sylvia Plath and readings by her, recorded by the British Council for the Harvard University Poetry Room shortly before her death. Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.50