Introductory talk by MICHAEL SWANN , F.R.S. of the University of Edinburgh on a recent theory about the regulation of population size which may explain the origin of social systems.
The author of the theory is the Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen, V. C. Wynne-Edwards, and it is set out in his book Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour.
A discussion follows at 8.30

Prélude. Marine, et Chansons played by the MELOS Ensemble on a gramophone record

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With PROFESSOR MICHAEL SWANN in the chair three scientists discuss Professor Wynne-Edwards's theory and its implications regarding the origin of social systems:
J. M. CULLEN
University of Oxford
JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
University College. London J. Z. YOUNG
University College. London followed at 9.10* by comment by the author of the theory: V. C. WYNNE-EDWARDS
Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen
Second broadcast

A play by Jerzy Broszkiewicz translated from the Polish by NICHOLAS BETHELL with Stephen Murray as Lemuel Gulliver and William Fox
0.8 The Narrator
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
This play by the contemporary Polish playwright, first performed in 1961, throws new light on certain aspects of the life of the famous explorer that were omitted from his celebrated memoirs.
Second broadcast

Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E flat major (S.998)... Bach played by PETER WALLFISCH followed by an interlude at 10.55