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When it began, five years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
Intellectual Caviar. The people who want the highbrow Third Programme have never numbered more than 1,500,000, compared to the 45 million who listen to BBC's middlebrow Home network and the lowbrow Light Programme. But this small minority can tune in on the best brains, the best music and the best drama Britain can produce. Not all of the Third's intellectual caviar is equally palatable: it ranges from odd items like "An Ecologist among the Hopi" to Scientist Fred Hoyle's exciting series of lectures on the universe, which proved so popular that they...
Chamber music used to be strictly highbrow country; nowadays it is close to becoming a U.S. fad. One of the best examples of the current trend: the steadily increasing popularity of the Budapest String Quartet...
...Christian philosophers who still rely on strict, logical proofs of the existence of God, a British Jesuit has a bit of advice: save your breath. Says Father Vincent Turner in an article in Britain's highbrow Roman Catholic quarterly, the Dublin Review: "Traditional theistic argument no longer cuts...
...Highbrow tourists have praised the murals to the skies; many local churchgoers are bewildered by them. Some of the artists say they are satisfied with their work; a troubled few say, "C'e pas faute moin [It's not my fault...