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Here at last is a worthy recording of one of our most dedicated actors, whose voice should surely be enlisted for the spoken catalogue. It has for too long been a matter of regret that apart from playing in the Brunswick Cocktail Party Sir Alec has remained unrecorded. A glance at the titles will...

It is ironical that just after we have been listening to Peter Sellers' superb portrait of Sir Alec last month he himself should appear in a kind of self-burlesque. Many years ago D. B. Wyndham-Lewis compiled an anthology of "bad" verse, which he called "The Stuffed Owl", and doubtless some of...

MILTON, JOHN. Poems. Concluding speeches from Samson Agonistes; Sonnet on his blindness; At a solemn Musick. Read by Marius Goring. Jupiter Q JEPOC17 (7 in., 12s. plus 3s. 11d. PT.).

This, the first recorded anthology of German poetry to be issued in Britain, covers a lot of ground (from the 13th century to our own times), a great variety of styles, and a satisfyingly wide range of moods. The poems have been well chosen, avoiding the 'sicklier sentimentalities of the late...

A previous recital by Sir John Gielgud was called "Ages of Man". This, being the second part of "Ages of Man", is entitled "One Man in his Time". The extracts have been selected with great skill to take us directly to the "many parts" imagined by Shakespeare, but these are from the generality of...