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Westminster Abbey
Introduced by JOHN BETJEMAN CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY Conductor. DOUGLAS GUEST SIMON PRESTON (organ) Choir:
Broadcast on December 3. 1965

A request programme Of gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Verdi and the Censor by MARK LUBBOCK
Musical Profile: John Pritchard by HENRY RAYNOR
Richard Tauber (1892-1948) by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Church and Chamber Barrel-Organs: book review by Fritz Spiegl

GERARD SOUZAY (baritone)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
gramophone records

Opera in four acts
After the novel by the Abbé Prevost
Music by Puccini sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing:
Beaux, Abbes, citizens, students. prostitutes
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF the NATIONAL OPERA, MONTE CARLO Chorus-Master, Marcel Gay
Conducted by GEORGES SEBASTIAN
The action takes place in France and America during the eighteenth century.
Act 1 A public square In Amiens
Act 2 A room in Geronte's house tn
Paris
Intermezzo: The Imprisonment. The journey to Le Havre.
Act 3 Le Havre. A square near the harbour
Act 4 America. A prairie.
Recording made available by courtesy of Monte Carlo Radio

Queen Elizabeth Hall
Aeolian String Quartet
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Part I
Quartet in F major, Op. 59
No. 1

†Denis MATTHEWS discusses Beethoven and the string quartet

Part 2

Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127

The fourth of nine public concerts promoted by the BBC Music Programme devoted to the quartets and violin sonatas of Beethoven

(Next programme, Guarneri String Quartet: February 4)

followed by an interlude

Intermezzo in two scenes
Libretto by Gennarantonio Federico
Music by Giovanni Paisiello
Sung in Italian first broadcast in this country
Uberto, an elderly bachelor
FERNANDO CORENA (bass)
Serpina, his maid
ADRIANA MARTINO (soprano)
Harpsichord continuo, Luciano Sgrizzi
SWISS RADIO ORCHESTRA OF LUGANO
Conductor, BRUNO RIGACCI
The action takes place in Uberto house in Naples, in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio

by Professor A. F. Huxley , F.R.S. Nobel Laureate in Physiology, 1963
A shortened version of the Woolmer Lecture Professor Huxley gave to the Biological Engineering Society in October 1967 in which he traces some of his own ' discoveries ' back to their forgotten sources.

Chosen and introduced by Adam Watson
Readers, SUSAN FLEETWOOD MICHAEL HARBOUR
ANTHONY JACOBS , JOHN JUSTIN HENRY STAMPER and GUDRUN URE
† Produced by R. D. Smith
Susan Fleetwood is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by an interlude at 6.55

from Düsseldorf
Clifford Curzon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean
Conductor, Colin Davis
Part 1

by VERA BLACKWELL
The fourth Congress of the Czech Writers' Union of six months ago was described by Jiri Hendrych , member cf the Communist Central Committee who was present, as a ' platform for political demonstration.' Repressive measures were subsequently taken. Vera Black well summarises what was said at the Congress and assesses the tension that now exists between the intellectuals and the Party.

Part 2

Just over one hundred years ago four men and one woman were trying to discover the source of the White Nile. Their explorations ended in the strange death of one of them, a bitter feud, and deep personal antagonism.
The script, based on the explorers' books and narratives compiled and narrated by FREDERICK BRADNUM
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Second broadcast
Anthony Woodruff Is in ' No. 10 at the Strand Theatre. London

GERHARD MANTEL (cello) ERIKA FRIESER (piano) Broadcast on November 16, 1966