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The fifth of six talks on Augustus Hare by Humphrey Higgens
In the London of the seventies, Hare achieved his heart's desire and became a great success in society. In a May entry in his journal he notes sadly that for the first night that year he had not been asked out to dine.
Reader, Richard Hurndall

Contributors

Unknown:
Augustus Hare
Unknown:
Humphrey Higgens
Reader:
Richard Hurndall

Philip Toynbee
D. H. Lawrence forms the subject of this programme. Philip Toynbee talks about two recent books: D. H. Lawrence : Novelist,' a critical study by F. R. Leavis , and a biography, ' The Intelligent Heart,' by Harry T. Moore.
Readers: Anthony Jacobs
Raf de la Torre

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Toynbee
Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Talks:
Philip Toynbee
Unknown:
F. R. Leavis
Readers:
Harry T. Moore.
Readers:
Anthony Jacobs
Readers:
Raf de la Torre

C. A. Joyce introduces a dramatised illustration of the problem of work and the worker, and discusses it with the Rev. Wilfrid Garlick
Recorded illustration devised by R. T. Brooks and provided by Violet Carson
Brian Trueman , and Geoffrey Banks

Contributors

Introduces:
C. A. Joyce
Unknown:
Rev. Wilfrid Garlick
Unknown:
R. T. Brooks
Provided By:
Violet Carson
Provided By:
Brian Trueman
Provided By:
Geoffrey Banks

by John Galsworthy
Adapted for broadcasting in twelve parts by Muriel Levy
Part 5
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Production by Hugh Stewart
Jolyon goes to see Soames Forsyte regarding the latter's possible divorce from his estranged wife Irene. He explains that Soames has no grounds for divorce, since Irene has remained faithful.
Meanwhile, Val Dartie is told of his father's disappearance to South America, and his mother (sister of Soames) explains that she will have to seek a divorce. Val is extremely upset. He pays a visit to his grandfather, James Forsyte, and receives a gift of money.
Annette Lamotte and her mother pay a visit to Soames's house at Mapledurham. He is contemplating marriage with the French girl, but is unsure of himself until he has again seen Irene.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Galsworthy
Production By:
Hugh Stewart
Jolyon:
Guy Rolfe
Soames:
Ronald Simpson
Irene:
Grizelda Hervey
James:
Laidman Browne
Emily:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Aunt Juley:
Hazel Hughes
Aunt Hester:
Elma Verity
Francey:
Cecile Chevreau
June:
Annabel Maule
Warmson:
Martin Lewis

by Nikolaus Pevsner
6-Constable and the Pursuit of Nature
Constable claimed that landscape painting is a branch of natural philosophy. Dr. Pevsner finds in this remark another instance of the English genius for rational observation. But now observation is directed upon nature, not upon man. Thomas Girtin, Crome, and Constable in their landscape painting ' led Europe away from man towards atmosphere '—their searching naturalism is into sky and air.
The psychological setting for their work is the passion, developed in the eighteenth century, of the English gentleman for the English landscape garden, which Dr. Pevsner holds to be ' the most influential of all English innovations in art.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Pevsner

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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