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Hans Hotter (baritone)
Jacques Lancelot (clarinet)
Annie D'Arco (piano) on gramophone records
Songs :
Im Fruhling (Schubert); Am Bach im Fruhling (Schubert); Feldeinsamkeit (Brahms) with Gerald Moore (piano)
Die beiden. Grenadiere (Schumann) with Hermann von Nordbeng (piano) Sonata in -E flat. Op. 120 No. 2
(Brahms)

Contributors

Clarinet:
Jacques Lancelot
Piano:
Annie D'Arco
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Hermann von Nordbeng

RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred.
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. Life and Work in Asia. Rene Cutforth talks about life in Central Burma.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Johann Strauss der Jungere (1825-1899). 'Johann Strauss trieft ja von Musik.' hat sein Freund Johannes Brahms von ihm gesagt, dem fällt immer et was ein.' Wir werden einige von d'iesen Einfällen ' in Szenen aus dem Leben des Komponisten horen. Manuskript von Else Johannsen-Wagner

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred.
Talks:
Asia. Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
Central Burma.
Unknown:
Johann Strauss Der Jungere
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Freund Johannes Brahms

ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH. 'The Forty Farmers': a fantasy by H. N. May. adapted for radio by Jean Sutcliffe
2.20 HISTORY i. Wolfe at Quebec: the story of the campaign of 1769. Script by Jo Manton
2.40 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. 'Science and Washday.' Script by Philip Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
H. N. May.
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Script By:
Jo Manton
Script By:
Philip Brown

by S. I. HsiUng
Adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Cast in order of speaking:
Suitors, attendants, soldiers:
Susan Kennaway , Terence Soall
Peter Bartlett. Kim Grant and T. St. John Barry
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
S. I. Hsiung
Unknown:
Cynthia Pughe
Unknown:
Susan Kennaway
Unknown:
Terence Soall
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett.
Unknown:
Kim Grant
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Honourable Reader:
Norman Claridge
His Excellency Wang Yun, the Prime Minister:
Esme Percy
Madam Wang his wife:
Olga Lindo
Su the Dragon General, their eldest son-in-law:
Rupert Davies
Wei the Tiger General, their second son-in-law:
Peter Bathurst
Golden Stream, their eldest daughter,Su's wife:
Mary Williams
Silver Stream, their second daughter,Wei's wife:
Jeanette Tregarthen
Precious Stream, their third daughter,:
Sulwen Morgan
Hsieh Ping-Kuei, their gardener:
David King-Wood
The Princess of the Western Regions:
Jill Balcon
General Mu:
Allan Jeayes
Executioner:
Tony Quinn
His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Cyril Shape

Power from Peat by Sir Edward Appleton , F.R.S. Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University
For centuries crofters in the Scottish Highlands have used peat as fuel for heating and cooking. Sir Edward Appleton , who is Chairman of the Scottish Peat Committee, discusses the possibility of utilising peat for the generation of electric power.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Edward Appleton
Unknown:
Sir Edward Appleton

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