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Today Artur Rubinstein is over eighty and still gives well over 100 concerts a year, journeying to all corners of the world. In a conversation with BERNARD LEVIN , the celebrated Polish-born pianist talks about his eventful life and his attitudes to the music of Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky
A radio adaptation of the programme shown on BBC-tv on December 1. 1968. and broadcast on February 16. 1969. (Radio 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Artur Rubinstein
Unknown:
Bernard Levin

LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by RAYMOND AGOULT
NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OIVIND BERGH
VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by \MAX SCHÖNHERR
Recordings made available by courtesy of Norwegian and Austrian Radios

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Raymond Agoult
Conducted By:
Oivind Bergh
Conducted By:
Max Schönherr

on Dirk Bogarde who recalls the highlights of his career from his first lucky break on stage to international star actor with soundtrack illustrations and comments from
WENDY CRAIG , JACK CLAYTON and JOSEPH LOSEY
Written and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by Lyn Fairhurst

Contributors

Unknown:
Dirk Bogarde
Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Unknown:
Jack Clayton
Unknown:
Joseph Losey
Introduced By:
Peter Matthews
Produced By:
Lyn Fairhurst

A family magazine introduced from Wales by HARRY SOAN and including:
In her own right: MARJORIE ABSE , wife of the Labour Member of Parliament, talks to Ann Clwyd
First Love: by ELIZABETH SHEPPARD JONES
Divided City: WYN CALVIN who visited Berlin recently gives his impressions of the city
Valley of Animals: ELMA WIL-LIAMS talks to Gaenor Thomas about her new venture in mid-Wales
Universal Brides: some impressions by SALLY HAVARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Soan
Unknown:
Marjorie Abse
Unknown:
Elizabeth Sheppard
Unknown:
Wyn Calvin
Talks:
Elma Wil-Liams
Unknown:
Gaenor Thomas
Unknown:
Sally Havard

Sinister Twilight
The fall and rise again of Singapore
The book by Noel Barber abridged as a five-part reading by MARJORIE BILBOW
Read by NIGEL GRAHAM
1: The Last Days of Peace
' During the first week of December 1941 the people of Singapore enjoyed life as they had always done. untouched by the rigours of the war in Europe. But their untroubled existence was soon to come to a terrifying end....'

Contributors

Book By:
Noel Barber
Reading By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Read By:
Nigel Graham

Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Travers-Macy:
Angela Piper
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville

by G. Nouil-Godden
A dramatised account of the loss on the Long Sands, off the Essex coast, of a full-rigged ship on January 4, 1881, and of the rescue attempts which finally resulted in the Ramsgate lifeboat saving twelve members of the ship's crew.
Narrator, DENIS MCCARTHY with Harry Towb , Stuart Nicholl
John Baddeley. John Bryning Victor Lucas , Alan Mason Stephen Jack , William Fox
Maureen Beck , Dorothy Gordon
Produced by Maurice Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
G. Nouil-Godden
Narrator:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Harry Towb
Unknown:
Stuart Nicholl
Unknown:
John Baddeley.
Unknown:
John Bryning
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Alan Mason
Unknown:
Stephen Jack
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Maureen Beck
Unknown:
Dorothy Gordon
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

The Father of Modern Surgery
Written by TONY VAN DEN BERGH with Andrew Faulds as John Hunter
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Written By:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Andrew Faulds
Unknown:
John Hunter
Produced By:
Alan Burgess
Anne Hunter:
Gudrun Ure
William Hunter:
Duncan McIntyre
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons:
Frank Duncan
Crouch:
Leigh Crutchley

A weekly magazine of discovery and invention
News and views of the men and women whose achievements are going to affect our daily life
Introduced by Paul VAUGHAN A Science Unit production
9.58 Weather forecast

Contributors

Introduced By:
Paul Vaughan

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