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Dresden State Opera Orchestra
Conductor, Karl Bohm
Jan Dahmen (violin)
Overture: Der Freischlitz (Weber) Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)
Violin Concerto No. 5, in A (K.219)
(Mozart)
Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana)
(Mascagni)
Don Juan (Richard Strauss ) on gramophone records

Contributors

Conductor:
Karl Bohm
Violin:
Jan Dahmen
Unknown:
Don Juan
Unknown:
Richard Strauss

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by J. M. Richards
12.11 Films : Connery Chappell
12.20 Theatre: Ivor Brown
12.28 Books : Walter Allen
12.37 Radio: Stephen Bone
12.45 Art: Denis Mathews

Contributors

Conducted By:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
Ivor Brown
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Stephen Bone
Unknown:
Denis Mathews

Talk by Geoffrey Crowther
How did Britain organise for war? What were the stages of mobilisation and what principles and policies emerged at each stage ?
In this talk the Editor of The Economist reviews ' British War Economy ' by W. K. Hancock and M. M. Gowing. This book is the first of possibly thirty volumes on the civil history of the war. as analysed by a team of historians working from the official documents. (' British War Economy' is published by H.M. Stationery Office. price 21s.)

Contributors

Talk By:
Geoffrey Crowther
Unknown:
W. K. Hancock
Unknown:
M. M. Gowing.

The dramatic story of Holland's two-thousand-year-old struggle with the ocean. Illustrated by recordings made recently in Holland Narrator, James McKechnie
Music composed by Franz Reizenstein and played by an orchestra under the direction of John Hollingsworth
Written and produced by Leonard Cottrell

Contributors

Narrator:
James McKechnie
Composed By:
Franz Reizenstein
Unknown:
John Hollingsworth
Produced By:
Leonard Cottrell

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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