A programme of Balkan gramophone records by Philip Thornton
Philip Thornton , author, musician, and wanderer, comes back to the microphone with a bag of records and a head full of stories about them. During the past three yean he has been collecting the folk lore, music, and dances of the Balkan races. He wandered from the far north Carpathians to the Ægean, from Albania across Macedonia to the Black Sea, living with the peasants and dancing with them. Tonight he will talk of fertility rites, burial dances, vampire hunts, and ecstatic fire dancing, illustrating all his stories with records made of the actual music played at the ceremonies.