With Susan Sharpe.
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1.00 Chamber Music from Manchester
From New
Broadcasting
House.
Presented by Rodney Slatford.
Medea Quartet
Mathias String Quartet No 2 Schnittke String Quartet No 3
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 Alexander Gibson
(1926-95)
The second of four programmes in which
Malcolm Hayes surveys the life and work of the conductor. Today, 1959-68, with contributions from
Janet Baker ,
John Drummond ,
Peter Hemmings , Conrad Wilson and lain Hamilton. Including Sibelius The Bard
Scottish National Orchestra lain Hamilton Sinfonia for two orchestras
Scottish National Orchestra
Stockhausen Gruppen BBC Scottish Orchestra
Berlioz Les Troyens (excerpts) Soloists
London Symphony Orchestra Producer Simon Lord
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4.20 Turns of the Century
An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers. Russell Davies celebrates Frank Randle.
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4.30 Lost Voices
The second of three programmes of English folk songs.
2: Incest and Folk Dancing Georgina Boyes takes a sceptical look at the mystique surrounding the English folk song throughout the 20th century. Including songs and dances from East
Anglia, the hop fields of Kent, the cotton towns of Lancashire, and the coal mines of Durham, plus the ballad of the Copshawholme Butcher and the Northumbrian hotel chambermaid.
Producer John Thomley