27 AUGUST 1954, page 13

Television And Radio

THE transmission of music was in the beginning of it and still remains the only completely satisfactory excuse for the invention of broadcasting. It was 'music in the air' that......

Two New Poems

By PHILIP OAKES Facing the North To invoke the north is a necessary pain When winter.trims the marrow in the bone, A whistle in the right quarter Raises a wind to chap the heart......

Art

SOMEWHERE between the last work of Cezanne and the early work of Picasso Seven hundred years of European painting Were turned upside down. Yet who shall say whether that......

Playgrounds

Gutted of clay, the marl pit Is the mesa where the bad men wait; Tomorrow, no-man's land, alert With partisan patrols and next week Planetary station one, Where rockets break......