ILSE HOLLWEG (soprano)
Louis DEVOS (tenor)
KIETH ENGEN (bass)
CHOIR AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OF THE
BAVARIAN BROADCASTING Service
Chorus-Master, Kurt Prestel Conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Recording made available by courtesy of the Bavarian Broadcasting Service

by ANDREW BOOTH Professor of Electrical Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan
The ' brain drain ' continues to be a subject of public debate and, in some quarters, concern. Professor Booth is himself an emigre scientist who went to Canada. In this talk. first broadcast in September, he explains why he left Britain and analyses some of his reactions to his new environment.
Second broadcast

Suite No. 4, in E minor Suite No. 7, in G minor first collection played by CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
The first of two programmes of llandet suites played by Charles Spinks

by Clifford Dyment
• In 1923 1 had a holiday. Of course, all holidays are special, but for me this one was especially special because I was returning to the place where I had spent the first four years of my life-from 1914 to 1918.'
Narrated by THE AUTHOR with Patricia Hayes , Margaret John Caroline Leigh , Sulwen Morgan Gwenllian Robinson Marjorie Westtmrv
Richard Bebb , William Eedle Basil Jones. David Kinscy Desmond Llewelyn Talfryn Thomas and Viola Tunnard (piano)
John Ashby (trombone)
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
Third broadcast

played by DANIEL SHAFRAN (cello)
NINA MUSINYAN (piano)

and other places
' Criticism must be sincere, simple, flexible, ardent—ever widening its knowledge. Then it may have in no contemptible measure a joyful sense of creative activity ' MATTHEW ARNOLD
JOHN BOWEN , novelist and critic, and BERNARD Levin , critic and political commentator, discuss this and other definitions of criticism and talk about the purposes of criticism and the attitudes and responsibilities of critics

A radio opera by Humphrey Searle
Libretto adapted by Humphrey Searle from the story and the play The Killer by EUGENE IONESCO Cast in order of singing:
Sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop SINFONIA of LONDON
Leader, Granville Jones and the AMBROSlAN SINGERS
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Produced by Douglas CLEVERDOR and LIONEL SALTER

Charles Tomlinson introduces and reads some of his own poems

WOLFGANG MEYER (organ) HEINZ ZOLLER (flute)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL FORSTED and HANS VON BENDA on gramophone records