7 OCTOBER 1949, Page 13

Records

More about recordings. One night last week, the whole of the Third Programme—concerts, a play, a music drama, a talk on Goethe, a short story, song cycles and so on—came to us on recordings, every single minute.

This may be a record, as they say. It is certainly unbeatable. But is it desirable? LIONEL FIAI.E.