String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 played by the LOEWENGUTH QUARTET
Alfred Loewenguth (violin) Jacques Gotkovsky (violin) Roger Roche (viola)
Roger Loewenguth (cello) on a gramophone record

A series of four programmes
2: The Use of the Past
FRANK KERMODE
Professor of English Language and Literature,
University of Manchester presents conversations with DERYCK COOKE music critic
STEPHEN SPENDER poet and author of The Struggle of the Modern
DONALD DAVIE poet and Professor of Literature. University of Essex
M.I.FINLEY
University Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge
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The second of four programmes recorded at last year's Edinburgh International Festival
Introduced by Peter Crossley-Holland

The Alap and Gat in the raga Sindhu Bhairavi played by Ravi Shankar (sitar), Alla Rakha (tabla), Narasimhulu (tambura)

(Recorded in the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh, on August 30, 1963)

by Jeremy Brooks with Hugh David
A novelist is confronted by a character he has created, and in the argument which results the truth of life and the truth of art appear in conflict.
Produced by NESTA PAIN
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BBC SYMPHONY Orchestra led by Norman Nelson
Conductor.
Antal Doratl
Part 1
Gerhard's First Symphony (1952) can be heard in next week's Saturday Concert . and his new wort The Plague.' for speaker, chorus. and orchestra, commissioned by the BBC. will be given its first performance in the BBC Symphony Concert at the Royal Festival Hall on April 1.

by Guy FREELAND
Philosophers of science are seldom interested in what scientists actually do in their laboratories. Mr. Freeland argues that this ' apparent distaste for the mundane ' has led to the neglect of Important features of scientific skill and logic; in particular, the ingenuity of scientists in removing discrepancies between experimental results and theoretical prodictions.

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vata, London. Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed]

GUNTHER SCHULLER talks with ALEXANDER GOEHR about the situation of the American composer at the present time
They discuss the unique position of jazz and serious music in America, and compare the relation of the composer and society in the two continents.
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