Serenade in D major, Op. 8 played by the ITALIAN STRING TRIO Franco Gulli (violin)
Bruno Giuranna (viola) Giacinto Caramia (cello)
Second broadcast

First of two talks by W. G. Hoskins
Food, drink, housing, illness, the weather, these are the elementary conditions of life which most historians tend to neglect in writing history. W. G. Hoskins , Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, examines the connection between harvests and mortality in pre-industrial England.

by David Richards with Anthony Jacobs as The Poet
A dramatic poem by a young Welsh poet on the death of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca
Music composed and played by FREDDIE PHILLIPS
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Second broadcast

An die Leier
Philoctet
Memnon
Orest auf Tauris
Der entsiihnte Orest sung by DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) with JOERG DEMUS (piano) on a gramophone record

A re-assessment of John Clare by ERIC ROBINSON with readings from his poetry and prose by HUGH Dickson , BASIL JONES and PETER AUGUSTINE
The programme, based on new sources of information, includes some previously unpublished poems.
Eric Robinson Is joint Editor with Geoffrey Summerfield of the new edition of John Clare 's' Shepherd's Calendar ' and of ' The Later Poems of John Clare ' both published this year

COLLEGIUM MUSICUM de PARIS
Conducted by ROLAND Douattk
Recording made available by courtesy of the French Broadcasting Service

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