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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Verdi's Otello, by ALAN BLYTH.
New records of chamber music, reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Alan Blyth.
Reviewed By:
Robert Henderson.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

WILLIAM DAVIS CONSTRUCTION GROUP BAND conductor JOHN BERRYMAN Gordon Jacob Suite in a flat
Joseph Horovitz Sinfoni etta
Edward Gregson Connota tions. BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Conductor:
John Berryman
Conductor:
Gordon Jacob Suite
Unknown:
Joseph Horovitz Sinfoni
Unknown:
Edward Gregson Connota

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Robert Cushman (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork , Benedict Nightingale and Claire Tomalin. This week's subjects:
John Huston 's film Wise Blood; Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest: the Hull Truck Company in Ooh La La! at the Bush Theatre; David Hare 's film for TV Dreamt of Leaving; and the Moholy-Nagy exhibition at the ICA.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Cushman
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Benedict Nightingale
Unknown:
Claire Tomalin.
Unknown:
John Huston
Unknown:
Bernard Berenson
Unknown:
David Hare

In this month's edition Stephen Dodgson introduces excerpts from the 1979 Esztergom International Guitar Festival and talks to some of the participants.
Music by Vivaldi, Carulli, Hinojosa, Bach, Ascencio and the first performance of Blue Sky and Smile, for guitar orchestra, by Leo Brouwer (Hungarian Radio recordings)
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson
Unknown:
Leo Brouwer
Producer:
Gareth Walters

Words and music by Michael Tippett : records Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE,
COVENT GARDEN, conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
The scene is set in a clearing in a wood, during the present time Act 1

Contributors

Music By:
Michael Tippett
Conducted By:
Sir Colin Davis

' A man should write for all he is worth, about whatever state he is in at the time, however little he knows about it. You only stumble on poetic truth in the dark; in the light it is too easy to step round it.'
P. J. Kavanagh introduces and reads a selection of his own poetry.
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Introduces:
J. Kavanagh

A short story by ALPHONSE DAUDET , translated by EDWARD HARRIS
Read by John Baddeley
* You will see two old antediluvian fossils buried in armchairs older than themselves. Laugh at the peril of your life! They are my grandparents.'
Producer MATTHEW WALTERS

Contributors

Story By:
Alphonse Daudet
Translated By:
Edward Harris
Read By:
John Baddeley
Producer:
Matthew Walters

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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