Sextuor played by THE COMPOSER (piano) with the PHILADELPHIA WOODWIND Quintet on a gramophone record
A documentary programme assembled by J. M. Cohen
Much has been said about the liberalisation of Spanish culture. Censorship of books and periodicals and the ideological direction of students are said to be on the way out; a new press law seems to grant greater freedom, though it also imposes higher penalties.
J. M. Cohen has visited Spain to record conversations with various people in the intellectual world, both Castilian and Catalan, in Madrid and Barcelona.
Second broadcast
played by Alicia Schachter (piano)
by L. L. WHYTE
Molecular biology Is revealing the kind of ordered structure that characterises living matter. But in so doing, it is demonstrating that the nature of life limits its capacity for variation': there is only a limited range of possible structures. Is Darwinian theory an incomplete account of the evolution of life?
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Played by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Jascha Horenstein
This performance is from the original version edited by Robert Haas and published in 1937. Eighth of a series of programmes including all Bruckner's symphonies. Symphony No. 7; June 8
Three talks by ARTHUR KOESTLER based on his forthcoming book
The Act of Creation
1: The Dark Ages of Psychology Mr. Koestier proposes the theory that all creative activities---eonscious and unconscious processes underlying scientific discovery. artistic originality, and comic inspiration-have a basic pattern in common which he attempts to define. His book is a frontal attack on behaviourism both in its earher and up-to-date versions.
2-Cames of the underground: May 10
See page 17
by Arthur Miller
Donald Wolfit and Donald Houston with Jane Wenham , William Eedlo and Pinkie Johnstone
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by JOHN Tydeman
Second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL 9.40-* 50
A record of Bach's Fantasia in G major (S.572) played by Helmut Walcha (organ)