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† DENIS MATTHEWS introduces a programme of Howard Fergu son's music to celebrate his sixtieth birthday
Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
Octet Ⓢ YFRAH NEAMAN (violin)
HOWARD FERGUSON (piano) LEONARDO ENSEMBLE

Contributors

Introduces:
Denis Matthews
Unknown:
Howard Fergu
Violin:
Yfrah Neaman
Piano:
Howard Ferguson
Piano:
Leonardo Ensemble

JAMES WALKER (piano)
† BIRMINGHAM WIND PLAYERS
Anthony Moroney (flute) Robin Miller (oboe)
John Fuest (clarinet)
Nicholas Hunka (bassoon) Kenneth Cordingley (horn)

Contributors

Piano:
James Walker
Flute:
Anthony Moroney
Oboe:
Robin Miller
Clarinet:
John Fuest
Bassoon:
Nicholas Hunka
Horn:
Kenneth Cordingley

Music and the Seasons
Leader, Maurice Brett
Conducted by ALAN SUTTlE and the NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING Orchestra Conducted by OIVIND BERGH
Recordings made available by courtesy of Norwegian Radio

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Brett
Conducted By:
Alan Suttle
Conducted By:
Oivind Bergh

Elliott Carter introduces and talks about his Double Concerto

Paul Jacobs (harpsichord)
Charles Rosen (piano)
and Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Frederik Prausnitz

Contributors

Presenter:
Elliott Carter
Harpsichordist:
Paul Jacobs
Pianist:
Charles Rosen
Musicians:
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Conductor:
Frederik Prausnitz

American Society in an Election Year
An enquiry by Daniel Snowman
In a Presidential election year the news from America tends to be dominated by primaries, National Conventions, parties. and candidates. But to many thoughtful Americans these things seem pitifully irrelevant in the face of the profound upheavals with which American society is beset.
Daniel Snowman was until recently a Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sussex and is the author of the recently published book U.S.A.: The Twenties to Vietnam.'
Produced by Archie Gordon
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Snowman
Unknown:
Daniel Snowman
Produced By:
Archie Gordon

Need the law be obscurer by SIR LESLIE SCARMAN a Judge of the High Court and the Chairman of the Law Commission
Introduced by MICHAEL ZANDER Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics
The second of nine programmes exploring some of the chief defects in the law and the legal system in its impact on the citizen.
3: Is there equality before the ktwf by Anthony Lester ; Oct. 28

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Leslie Scarman
Introduced By:
Michael Zander
Unknown:
Anthony Lester

Simon Woolf (boy treble)
Jantina Noorman (mezzo-soprano) Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor) Nige4 Rogers (tenor) Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Geoffrey Shaw (baritone) Don Smithers icornett and crumhoro) David Munrow
(shawm and crumhorn) Bernard Thomas
(rauschpfcife and crumhom)
John Sothcott (recorder and citole) Alan Lumsden (sackbut) Tony Moore (sackbut) Ruth David (rebec)
Daphno Webb (rebec)
Desmond Dupre (viol and rebec) Brian Wilson (harp)
Michael Morrow (lute) Jeremy Montagu
(Percussion and nakers)
Conductor,
JOHN BECKETT (organ)
The Age of Chivalry in France and the Hundred Years War including music by Adam de la Halle, Machaut, and Dufay
Part 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Woolf
Mezzo-Soprano:
Jantina Noorman
Mezzo-Soprano:
Grayston Burgess
Baritone:
Geoffrey Shaw
Baritone:
Don Smithers
Unknown:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Bernard Thomas
Unknown:
John Sothcott
Unknown:
Alan Lumsden
Unknown:
Tony Moore
Unknown:
Ruth David
Unknown:
Daphno Webb
Unknown:
Desmond Dupre
Harp:
Brian Wilson
Harp:
Michael Morrow
Unknown:
Jeremy Montagu
Conductor:
John Beckett

The last of three talks by WILLIAM GUTTERIDGE who was for fourteen years an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Mr. Gutteridge talks about the intervention of armies in the politics of some of the independent ex-colonies of Asia and Africa. He examines the special qualifications for an army to act in these circumstances and then draws attention to the problems which arise after a coup has been successful

Contributors

Unknown:
William Gutteridge

† KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Introduces three readings in his new verse translation of the Old English epic which will be broadcast tomorrow. Wednesday. and Thursday, and expresses something of what the poem means to him. The Fight with Grendel: tomorrow at 10.0 p.m.

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