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Symphony No 29, in A (Mozart): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
Aria: Ozean du Ungeheuer (Ocean, thou mighty monster) (Act 2, Oberon) (Weber): Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Piano Concerto (Scriabin): Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Henry Swoboda

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A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
' Beethoven's Missa Solennis and Mahler's Resurrection Symphony,' by Father Bernard McElligott
' Miscellaneous Records for March,' by William Mann
' Wagner's Tristan and Isolde' by Harold Rosenthal

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Unknown:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Father Bernard McElligott
Unknown:
William Mann
Unknown:
Harold Rosenthal

at the Assembly House, Norwich
Ralph Wightman introduces a farmer an organ builder a wildfowler an agricultural officer a cabinet maker a lifeboat coxswain's wife from coastal Norfolk
Song arranged by Francis Collinson sung by Robert Irwin
Production by Philip Donnellan

Contributors

Arranged By:
Francis Collinson
Sung By:
Robert Irwin
Production By:
Philip Donnellan

by Frank Craven
Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Craven
Adapted By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mrs Livingston:
Natalie Lynn
Grace Livingston:
Helen Horton
Dr Myron Anderson:
MacDonald Parke
Fred Livingston:
Tony Quinn
Dick Loring:
Harold Jamieson
Tommy Tucker:
Arthur Hill
Hattie:
Miriam Karlin
Peter Barstow:
Stuart Nichol
Mrs Barstow:
Mavis Villiers

BBC Symphony Orchestra . (Leader, Paul Beard ) Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
When Mabletr died in 1911, he left his tenan symphony unfinished: only one, or possibly two, of the projected five movements were sufficiently completed to justify performance The Adagio to be heard, tonight was original intended to be placed second, but Mahier seems later to have decided to make it the opening movement Ernst Krenek prepared a full score from Mahler's orchestral sketch, filling out the scoring but not adding a note to the actual music, and it is th s which is being used tonight. Hermann Scherchen introduced it to this country in two broadcast concerts in November 1948.
Liszt completed his symphonic 'poem
' Hunnenschlacht ' in 1857, a-nd conducted its first performance shot year at Weimar. It was inspired by an immense p:cture painted by Kauloach, depicrng the onslaught of Attala and his Huns against the forces of Christianity in the fifth century. According to legend, the battle raged so fiercely that when evening came, the survivors bdievod that they saw the spirits of those who had fallen continuing the conflict in the clouds. Deryck Cooke

Contributors

Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Hermann Scherchen
Unknown:
Deryck Cooke

Appeal on behalf of the 'Not Forgotten' Association (registered under War Charities Act, 1940), by Howard Marion-Crawford
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Founded in 1920 by the late Miss Mary Cunningham, C.B.E., the 'Not Forgotten' Association has grown to be an institution of national importance. It caters for the welfare of Service and ex-Service men by providing comforts and entertainments for them while in hospital, where many of them have been since the First World War.
The Association has just had an ambulance motor coach specially built, designed to convey to entertainments those men who have to travel in wheel chairs. The cost of this coach has been about £3,000 and its annual upkeep is considerable.
The 'Not Forgotten' Association needs £15,000 yearly to carry on its work.

Contributors

Speaker:
Howard Marion-Crawford

by Charles Dickens
Adapted and produced by Charles Lefeaux in twelve episodes
7—' Capture and Escape ' Cast in order of speaking:
When Nicholas returns to London with Stroke, by chance he overhrars S r Mulberry Hawk speak insultingly of Kate in a pubLc room of an hotel. The young man challenges him, but Hawk leaves and tries to dr:ve away, whereupon Nicholas seizes the .reins but the horse bolos and Hawk i* injured in the ensuing crash.
Raliph Nickleby hears of the accident from Mr. Mamalini and plots with Squeers to be revenged upon his nephew by striking at Sm'ke. Mrs. Nickehy and Kate welcome Sm'ke to their house and Nicholas, sewing out to seek employment, has the Rood fortune to meet the Cheeryble Brothers, Charles and N.d. who engage him as assistant to their clerk, Tim Linkinwaiter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
John Gabriel
Charles Cheeryble:
Harold Scott
Tim Linkinwater:
Frank Tickle
Trimmers:
Ernest Sefton
Nicholas Nickleby:
Gordon Davies
Mrs Nickleby:
Barbara Leake
Wackford Squeers Junior:
Roger Gorb
Mr Wackford Squeers:
Cecil Trouncper
Smike:
Martin Starkie
Mr Snawley:
Owen Fellowes
Kate Nickleby:
Daphne Grey
The Gentleman in Small Clothes:
George Hayes
Keeper:
Eugene Leahy
Fanny Squeers:
Gabrielle Blunt
Tilda Browdie:
Denise Bryer
John Browdie:
Deryck Guyler

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