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William Herbert (tenor)
Joseph Weingarten (piano)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Beethoven
Overture: Leonora, No. 3
7.47 app. Song with orchestra: Adelaide
7.56 app. Choral Fantasia, for piano, chorus, and orchestra
8.16 app. Symphony No. 7, in A
From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Contributors

Tenor:
William Herbert
Piano:
Joseph Weingarten
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conductor:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

The Blenheim tapestry shows the Duke of Marlborough on a white charger receiving the surrender of the French Marshal Tallard

On the 250th anniversary of the battle of Blenheim, David Green, Richard Dimbleby, Audrey Russell, and Henry Riddell describe some of the splendours of the Palace at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, which was bestowed on the first Duke of Marlborough by Queen Anne and a grateful nation as a reward for his great victory.

The description of the Palace is followed by a shortened version of Sir Winston Churchill's account of the battle in his biography of his ancestor. The reader is James McKechnie.

Contributors

Commentator:
David Green
Commentator:
Richard Dimbleby
Commentator:
Audrey Russell
Commentator:
Henry Riddell
Reader:
James McKechnie

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

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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