A weekly review of the arts
HUMPHREY SEARLE talks to JEREMY NOBLE about his new radio opera The Photo of the Colonel
H. A. L. CRAIG on the radio drama of Bill Naughton
A. ALVAREZ on two recent New York productions, Dylan by Sidney Michaels and After the Fall by Arthur Miller
Produced by Philip French

John Barstow (piano)
Dartington String Quartet: Colin Sauer, Peter Carter, Keith Lovell, Michael Evans

Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets, enclosing stamped addressed envelope, should be addressed to [address removed]

Next week: Rawsthorne, Violin Sonata, Quintet; Hindemith, Octet; Beethoven, Sonata in G Op. 30 No. 3 (Manoug Parikian and Lamar Crowson; Prometheus Ensemble with Wilfrid Parry)

Thoughts in favour of religion by MARTIN JARRETT-KERR , C.R.
' The Monastery ' is an essential dialectical fact in Christianity and we need to have it there like a lighthouse in order to gauge where we are.-KIERKEGAARD
And the weakness of secularised theology, the speaker argues, is that its God is too small.

Part 2

A scherzo by Ted Hughes
Cases of possession by the spirit of an ancestor or of a historical personage have often been recorded. There is also possession of Heroic Fury and by the Furies. A small and seemingly irrelevant incident may be enough to start any of these. On the other hand. a large relevant incident may trigger off what is merely a case of possession by Dogs.
Produced by Douglas CLEVERDON
Second broadcast

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