Half-Hours with the W.E.A.

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 42, 29 April 1932, Page 22

Half-Hours with the W.E.A.

THE following is the outline of Mr. ‘ Jellie’s fourth talk, "The Testament of Bridges," to be broadcast from 1YA on Wednesday, May 4:1. Robert’ Bridges, Poet Laureate (1913-30), published "The Testament of Beauty," on his 85th birthday. Picture the old man in his garden overlooking the city of Oxford, working at his last poetic will and testament. Having lived through the world’s

changes, 1850-1900. then through the war and its aftermath, he sums up his judgment on human life. An old man’s wisdom.

The most important poetical work of our generation. ° 2, Its argument. A question and an answer. The question: What are the Purpose and Destiny of Man, and what part does Beauty play therein? The answer is given in four books. Book one justifies the use of reason in the search for an answer, and traces the progress of human wisdom through the ages. Book two traces the working of the self-preserving instinct in humanity. Book three ‘deals with that other instinct by which Nature provides for the continuance of the race, and shows how, by association with the idea of beauty, it rises to supreme heights of spiritual love. In book four he traces the evolution of morality and religion, and shows how they culminate in a vision of love as the essence of the Divine Nature. His conclusion is, that as man’s life has been an evolution hitherto from humblest origins, so we haye reason to hope that when mind and body are separated the evolution of spirit will go on, until it reaches a union of the human and divine in life everlasting; and that beauty is the divinely appointed guide by which mankind is directed in his wanderings to his true home in God. "THE following is the outline of Mr. Hollinrake’s fourth talk .on the Instruments of the Orchestra, to be broadcast on Thursday, May 5:Percussion instruments: Kettle-drums (timpani), sidedrum, cymbals, tambourine, castanets, glockenspiel, tubular bells, celesta; also the harp. Mach instrument described-its construction and appearance. Sound of each instrument and its capabilities for use in the orchestra. Orchestral music demonstrating the use of percussion insitrmments by great composers,