This week sees the beginning of the summer season for the BBC's overseas programmes, and there will be certain changes in the regular items, including some new talks which will prove popular. "World Affairs, "Fool for Thought" and "Empire Exchange" will continue to be featured, but "World Affairs" is to include a new speaker in the person of A, P. Newton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial Relations in the University of London. Professor Newton, who was a scientist before he became zm historian, has travelled in all the Dominions and many of ihe Colonies. For sport-lovers there is to be a new weekly series, "Sporting Rivalry," im which the opponents in famous annual events—like the Ashes and the Boat Race—will be introduced to listeners. In four talks on "The Artist Today," Eric Newton, artist and art critic, will show how, in an age of small houses and cheap processes of reproduction, the artist is faced. with problems unknown to his predecessors. Later in the season re will be a series. "Building the y" in which the history of some the great cities im the Home country will be outlined; and, finaly, Howard Marshall is to revive his popular informal talks "Under Big Ben."
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