Harpsichord Concerto In D minor
ELIZA HANSEN (harpsichord)
Strings of the PFALZ ORCHESTRA, Ludwigshafen Conducted by CHRISTOPH STEPP on a gramophone record

Some scientific concepts in perspective
1: Information by JOHN MAYNARD SMITH. Reader in Zoology,
University College, London
Communication is the transfer of information: in this sense, our genes are ' communicators.' Information theory was first formulated by electronic engineers to tackle their practical problems. John Maynard Smith talks about its use in molecular biology,
Second broadcast
' Parity ' by Roger Blin-Stoyle : Saturday, October 3

MARIAN Nowakowski (bass)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)

An excursion into nineteenth-century bibliophily
Written and narrated by A. N. L. MUNBY
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor,
Antal Dorati
Part 1
Concerto Grosso No. 19, In 8 minor (Op. 6 No. 8) Handel
8.45 Chronochromie...Messiae»

The first three volumes of the History by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke cover the period from 1754 to 1790.
Herbert Butterfield
Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge considers its importance as a contribution to historical studies
He thinks that It is a ' germinal thing ' but he criticises Its lack of concern with the development of politics, ' the kind of politics that can only be told in the form at narrative.'

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 2. Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope

Towards Re-Tonality
In this illustrated talk
Benjamin Frankel examines the relationship of atonality with serial technique
He argues that the composers of the second Viennese school and their successors have left us with a widely expanded concept of tonality, and that this is demonstrable from the practice of the serial masters themselves
Second broadcast