With Susan Sharpe.
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1.00 Chamber Music from Manchester
From New Broadcasting House.
Presented by Lynne Walker. Emperor Quartet
Kenneth Dempster Under the Hammer
Debussy String Quartet in G minor
2.00 Schools
Let's Make a Story 2.15 Music Box 2.30 Dance
Workshop 2.50 Poetry Corner
3.00 Mining the Archive Time Regained
Irmgard Seefried's mastery of the German repertoire had all the qualities of greatness. She sang with Richard Strauss, and her Lieder recitals were a high point of the postwar period. In the last of three programmes profiling great sopranos, Gordon Stewart recalls her life and performances, including arias and songs by Mozart, Brahms and Wolf. A Cavendish production
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4.20 Turns of the Century
This week in the lexicon of English comedy performers, Roy Hudd celebrates Gillie Potter, radio's first "stand-up" comic.
4.30 The World of Yiddish Music
In the second of two programmes, Alex Knapp presents more traditional music of the Jewish communities of prewar eastern Europe and their descendants in America, Israel and elsewhere.
Including the klezmer band of Giora Feidman , songs of poverty and persecution, and an anthem of resistance that became a rallying call of the Jewish underground brigades in the Second World War. Producer John Thornley