25 NOVEMBER 1949, page 15

Music

BORIS CRISTOFF'S Godunov at Covent Garden was a most remarkabk and beautiful example of the musical-drama art. His voice is fine without being outstanding in itself, either in......

Compromises

But, inevitably, the Brains Trust seemed sometimes, by its haste, to fall short of the full reply to important questions. Friday Forum had a compromise solution ; the debaters......

Talks And Travels Of Recent Talks—how Wide A Field The

B.B.C. covers, and in general how well!—there has been Professor Plucknett's series, Looking At The Law, which surveys one English institution about which we need feel no......

The Roman Villa

Here, where we found a broken pot, A handful of blue, splintered tiles, A Roman sat, and saw around His Samian vase, his well-loved scroll Of Pliny, and the silver lamp That......

Radio

How do you like your radio discussions ? Extempore, or set down on paper to be read ? There is much to be said for and against both. The Brains Trust, for instance, owed half......

Alexandra Palace

For some time I have been feeling that television was missing its chances in the matter of documentaries ; and it was refreshing to be refuted last Monday by the second of the......