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tThe first programme in a new series
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) MICHAEL Rippon (baritone)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
MARY RYAN (flute)
SARAH FRANCIS (oboe)
IAN WHITE (viola d'amore)
JANE RYAN (viola da gamba) DEREK STEVENS
(organ and harpsichord contmuo) OLGA HEGEDUS (cello continuo) FRANCIS BAINES
(double-bass continuo)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Led by Vera Kantrovitch Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Cantata No. 152:
Tritt aut die Glaubensbahn
12.23* Cantata No. 57: Selig 1st der Mann

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Baritone:
Michael Rippon
Oboe:
Sarah Francis
Viola:
Jane Ryan
Unknown:
Derek Stevens
Cello:
Olga Hegedus
Double-Bass:
Francis Baines
Conductor:
Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor:
Denys Darlow

A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Officers of the Dragoon Guards:
Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of Dragoon Guards
THE JOHN McCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by MICHAEL MOORES and PETER BRYANT
ACT I Exterior of Castle Bunthorne
ACT 2 A glade
Derek Hammond-Stroud broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.
Broadcast on March 13. 1966

Contributors

Singers:
John McCarthy
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
Michael Moores
Produced By:
Peter Bryant
Unknown:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Colonel Calverley:
Donald Francke
Colonel Calverley spoken by:
Jack May
Major Murgatroyd:
Leslie Fyson
Major Murgatroyd spoken by:
Frederick Treves
Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable:
Duncan Robertson
Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable spoken by:
John Wood
Reginald Bunthorne, a Fleshly Poet:
Peter Pratt
Archibald Grosvenor, an Idyllic Poet:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Archibald Grosvenor, an Idyllic Poet spoken by:
Andrew Sachs
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Angela:
Shirley Minty
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Angela spoken by:
Elizabeth Morgan
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Saphir:
Patricia Clark
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Saphir spoken by:
Shirley Cooklin
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Ella:
Ursula Connors
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Ella spoken by:
Pamela Binns
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Jane:
Pamela Bowden
Rapturous Maidens:The Lady Jane spoken by:
Joyce Grant
Patience, a Dairy Maid:
Pamela Woolmore
Patience, a Dairy Maidspoken by:
Prunella Scales

by Michael Paul Rogin, Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Sussex

The Right wing of the Republican Party has produced a number of presidential aspirants in recent years. Professor Rogin, author of a recent book on Joseph McCarthy, discusses the image that four of these aspirants - McCarthy, Nixon, Goldwater, and Reagan - have presented to American voters.

Contributors

Speaker:
Michael Paul Rogin

by Sandro Key-Aberg
'0' translated from the Swedish by Brian ROTHWELL with music by JOHN BECKETT
Max Adrian , Timothy Bateson Catherine Dolan
Anthony Jackson
The' speakies ' selected and produced by H. B. FORTUIN
The author writes: ' ' O' is not a creation of character but of ideas. (The situations) are handled not realistically but imaginatively, in other words they are concentrated and distilled. They also try to use language to show how what we say can produce deliberate results or accidental and unexpected results.'
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandro Key-Aberg
Unknown:
Brian Rothwell
Music By:
John Beckett
Music By:
Max Adrian
Music By:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Catherine Dolan
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin

The search by Mao Tse-tung and the other Chinese leaders for a new formula after the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution is among subjects discussed by RICHARD HARRIS
Far East specialist of The Times together with FRANK DAVIES and ANDREW WATSON both of whom are Chinese scholars, and who were teaching English in China itself during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution.
Produced by Ian McDougall

Contributors

Unknown:
Mao Tse-Tung
Unknown:
Frank Davies
Unknown:
Andrew Watson
Produced By:
Ian McDougall

0 All the music in this programme is derived from various types of canon 10.11* Quartet, Op. 22, for violin, clarinet, saxophone, and piano
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Francis Baines (treble viol)
Elizabeth Baines (treble viol) Peter Vel (tenor viol)
John Isaacs (tenor viol) Jane Ryan (bass viol) with John Sothcott (recorder) Michael Oxenham (recorder)
Ralph Downes (chamber organ)
CANTORES IN ECCLESIA
Directed by MICHAEL HOWARD
JOSEPHINE NENDICK (mezzo-soprano)
Music GROUP OF LONDON Bernard Walton (clarinet) Hugh Bean (violin)
David Parkhouse (piano) with Martin Ronchetti (clarineo) Stephen Trier (clarinet. bass-clarinet, and saxophone)
Broadcast on May 30. 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Baines
Unknown:
Elizabeth Baines
Tenor:
Peter Vel
Tenor:
John Isaacs
Bass:
Jane Ryan
Unknown:
John Sothcott
Unknown:
Michael Oxenham
Unknown:
Ralph Downes
Directed By:
Michael Howard
Mezzo-Soprano:
Josephine Nendick
Violin:
Hugh Bean
Piano:
David Parkhouse
Unknown:
Martin Ronchetti
Clarinet:
Stephen Trier

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