from the Cheltenham Festival
ERIC ALLEN (percussion) ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Eli Goren (violin)
Peter Thomas (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
From the Town Hall, Cheltenham
Presented by the BBC in association with the Cheltenham Festival
Part 1

Professor Lattimore, American expert on China, is now at Leeds University to establish its Department of Chinese Studies. He spent some years of his childhood in China and has made many prolonged visits to China and Central Asia during the last thirty-five years. He talks about the way in which American attitudes towards China have influenced developments.

Part 2

A selection made and introduced by Michel Butor
Part 3
Poems by Baudelaire, Verlaine. Mallarme. Tristan Corbiere, and Rimbaud read by JACQUELINE MORANE and Yves Furet
Translations by Naomi Lewis , John Petrie , Frances Cornford , L. E. Jones , and Norman Cameron read by GODFREY KENTON
Presented by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Second broadcast

CHRISTIANE VAN ACKER (mezzo-soprano)
MICHEL PODOLSKI (lute)
Second broadcast

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