21 OCTOBER 1949, page 14

London, Europe, Asia For Stray Pickings. . . . It

was an entertaining idea for the B.B.C. to send out its 1st XI of commentators to explore London at 5 a.m., to investigate the markets and the Admiralty wireless room and the......

Art It Was In Bruges That The Van Eycks Brought

to culmination the tradition that they had inherited, and founded as a result the Flemish school that was to dominate art north of the Alps for a hundred years. Of the painters......

From Alexandra Palace From Recent Television I Cull The New

series of Foreign Corre- spondent, where Messrs. Alan Bullock and Edward Ward dealt last week (aided by maps and diagrams and films) with the Benelux countries. I got the......

Music

THE performance of Bloch's Sacred Service at the Albert Hall by_ the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra on October 13th was, unaccountably, the first in this country of a......

Radio The Programme Of The Week, For Me, Was The

Mediaeval Disputation on the Third Programme. This debate which was held in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, was on the thesis of "the Necessity of an Ethical basis of Human......