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Bernadette Creevy (contralto) Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In her second programme
BERNADETTE GREEVY with WILFRID PARRY (piano) sings
Mélodies populaires grecques Rave.

Contributors

Contralto:
Bernadette Creevy
Unknown:
Bernadette Greevy
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry

ERNA SPOORENBERG (soprano)
PETER GLOSSOP (baritone)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
THE LONDON ENSEMBLE
ALEXANDRA CHOIR
Conductor.
Charles Proctor HARROW CHORAL SOCIETY
Conductor. Clarice Brooksbank LONDONPHILHARMONIC CHOIR Conductor.
Frederic Jackson WATFORD PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Conductor. Leslie Regan
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Norman Nelson
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Part 1
Concerto Grosso No. 21, In D minor (Op. 6 No. 10) . Handel conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
12.42' Medieval Diptych for baritone and orchestra . Rawsthorne conducted by the composer

Contributors

Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conductor:
Charles Proctor
Conductor:
Clarice Brooksbank
Conductor:
Frederic Jackson Watford
Conductor:
Leslie Regan
Unknown:
Norman Nelson
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

ⓢ Opera in three acts
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto adapted from Shakespeare by THE COMPOSER and PETER PEARS gramophone records
CHOIRS OF
DOWNSIDE AND EMANUEL SCHOOLS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
ACT 1
4.40* ACT 2
5.30' ACT 3

Contributors

Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Peter Pears

2: The process of legislation
'Few laws make free men,' said nineteenth-century critics. Now the problem is to find time for all the laws that Parliament wants to pass. How does legislation happen? Should the process be bettered?
JOHN GRIFFITHS
London School of Economics and AIREY NEAVE. M.P. talk to PROFESSOR BERNARD CRICK Sheffield University
Produced by Chris Cuthbertson
A reading list can be obtained by sending a stamped addressed foolscap envelope to The Parliamentary Process. Further Education Department [address removed]

Contributors

Produced By:
Chris Cuthbertson

Enduring names from two forgotten plays adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES
The Gay Lothario in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe (1703)
Dramatis personae:
Men:
Scene: Sciolto's palace and garden, with some part of the street near it, in Genoa. 1703.

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Nicholas Rowe
Sciolto, a nobleman of Genoa. father to Calista:
Norman Shelley
Altamont, a young lord in love with Calista and designed her husband by Sciolto:
Gabriel Woolf
Horatio, his friend .:
Victor Lucas
Lothario, enemy to Altamont:
John Justin
Rossano his friend:
Denis McCarthy
Women Calista daughter to Sciolto:
Barbara Mitchell
Lavinia, sister to Altamont and wife to Horatio:
Marjorie Westbury
Lucilla, confident to Calista:
Gudrun Urb

in Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton (1800)
Characters in order of speaking:
Scene; Hampshire. 1800

Music composed by STEPHEN DODGSON played by the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Organ and harpsichord. WILLIAM DAVIES
Conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
Produced by Raymond Raikes
Second broadcast

DURING THE INTERVAL (8.25*-8.35*)
A record of two sonatas by Scarlatti played by GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Morton
Composed By:
Stephen Dodgson
Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Conducted By:
Kenneth Alwyn
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm
Morrington:
John Justin
Farmer Ashfield:
Norman Shelley
Dame Ashfield:
Marjorie Westbury
Evergreen:
Alan Dudley
Sir Abel Handy:
Victor Lucas
Peter, a servant:
Bernard Brown
Bob Handy:
Gabriel Woolf
Gerald:
Denis McCarthy
Henry:
John Forrest
Susan Ashfield:
Beth Boyd
Lady Handy:
Betty Hardy
A Countryman:
Bernard Brown
Miss Blandford:
Gudrun Ure
Sir Phillip Blandford:
Ralph Truman

Two talks on theology and iconography in the Middle Ages
2: Christ of the Trades by GEOFFREY WEBB
Julian of Norwich saw endless humanised heavens literally inside the feudal figure of God the Father. The psychology of this iconography reconciles the elements in conflict between the exclusive ' de luxe ' quality of the Wilton Diptych and the crudely vigorous Christ of the Trades in the popular murals
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Webb

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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