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BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis
Conducted by GEORGE HURST and MICHAEL ROSE conducted by Michael Rose
1.0 News; Weather conducted by George Hurst
Given before an invited audience in the Queen's Hall, Widnes

Contributors

Unknown:
James Davis
Conducted By:
George Hurst
Conducted By:
Michael Rose
Conducted By:
Michael Rose
Conducted By:
George Hurst

An opera in three acts Libretto after
William Shakespeare by PETER PEARS and BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Music by Benjamin Britten
Broadcast on June 19. 1966
Britten's The Prodigal Son from Aldeburgh, Friday at 920 p.m. (Third Programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Music By:
Benjamin Britten

Israel after Twenty Years
Last of three documentary programmes by Ian McIntyre who was commissioned by the Third Programme to visit Israel 3: Unfinished Business
Survival for what? We don'have to apologise for living, but just living is not enough. There should be a purpose to our lives.'
Produced by George Fischer
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
Produced By:
George Fischer

The third of six programmes juxtaposing poetry and music Poems by Philip Larkin are read by MICHAEL HORDERN and Mussorgsky's song-cycle Sunless is sung by ROBERT TITZE (baritone) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Programme devised by Leo Black
Songs broadcast on Oct. 19. 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Larkin
Read By:
Michael Hordern
Baritone:
Robert Titze

Two talks on a problematic term by R. W. HEPBURN
Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
1: The transcending of time
' What happens when the idea of divine perfection is brought into relation with the idea of time? '
Second talk: July 1

Contributors

Unknown:
R. W. Hepburn

played by the Swedish Radio Orchestra
Overture: Estrella di Soria
Minnen fran Norska Fjiillen
(Reminiscences of the Norwegian Mountains)
Elfleken (Play of the Elves)
Conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING Piano Concerto (1855)
GRETA ERIKSON (piano)
Conducted by STIG WESTERBERG first broadcast in this country
The last of three programmes of Berwald's orchestral music to mark the centenary of his death
Recording made available by courtesy of Swedish Radio followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Unknown:
Norska Fjiillen
Conducted By:
Sixten Ehrling
Piano:
Greta Erikson
Conducted By:
Stig Westerberg

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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