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A weekly review
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Manfred
Two portraits in music by GERALD ABRAHAM
Verdi's La Forza del Destino (produced November 10, 1862) by FRANCIS TOYE
Musical Profile: Johanna Martzy by NOEL GOODWIN
Status Symbols in Music
1: A Good Educational Background by SIDNEY HARRISON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Music By:
Gerald Abraham
Unknown:
Johanna Martzy
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Euryanthe (Weber)
Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat major (Chopin)
Artur Rubinstein (piano) with the Symphony of the Air Conducted by Alfred Wallenstein
Suite: Hary Janos (Kodaly)
Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conducted By:
Andante Spianato
Conducted By:
Grande Polonaise
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Conducted By:
Alfred Wallenstein
Unknown:
Hary Janos
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf

Chairman,
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Theatre: BAMBER GASCOIGNE
Broadcasting: CYRIL RAY
Book:
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON
Art: Bryan ROBERTSON
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Robert Robinson

Landscape Painting
2: CONSTABLE
1776-1837
Full-scale study for The Leaping Horse painted c. 1825 in the Victoria and Albert Museum , London Speaker, ANDREW FORGE painter and art critic
Repeated on Thursday at 7.35 in Network Three
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who are supplied every month with a colour print of the painting to be discussed, together with background notes and illustrations in black and white.
Details of the 1963 series can now be obtained from BBC Publications (Painting 1963), 35 Marylebone High Street, London, W.I. The subscription for 1963 has been reduced from 35s. to 30s., and this can be sent in now.

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Museum

by MARGOT BENARY adapted for radio by Muriel Levy
6: The Decision Produced by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Margot Benary
Unknown:
Muriel Levy
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Leni Winkelberg:
Sian Davies
Frau Friderike Rode:
Betty Hardy
Professor Hubertus Rode:
Robert Wallace
Resl:
Frances Brozel
Pat:
Fanny Carter
' Pippo:
Geoffrey Matthews
Dr Furchtnit:
Ronald Baddiley
Claus:
Peter Harvey
Stefan Langner:
Graham Tennant
John:
Brian Trueman
Bill:
Terry Dean
Gert Bellmer:
Ian Piper

Christians think about their faith and its living expression
The Colonel's Round
A Conversation Piece on the Ten Commandments today written by R. H. WARD Produced by COLIN JAMES

Contributors

Written By:
R. H. Ward
Produced By:
Colin James
Mr Bookless:
Wilfred Harrison
Mrs Barrell:
Constance Chapman
Colonel Gunn:
Ronald Russell
Mrs Trotter:
Phyllis Smale
Tom Tulip:
Douglas Leach
Mr Nutt:
Dudley Rolph

Without Benefit of Clergy read by FRANK DUNCAN
John Holden had bought the Indian girl Ameera for his amusement; but the light-hearted contract led to a deep and tragic love for these two who without benefit of clergy had taken each other for better, for worse. Series arranged by Mollie Hardwick

Contributors

Read By:
Frank Duncan
Read By:
John Holden
Arranged By:
Mollie Hardwick

Quartet in A major, Op. 41 No. 3 played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett

The Evacuation was the name given to the movement of children from their homes in the cities during the last war
In this programme men and women recall the deep impression made on them by this experience
Arranged by HEATHER SUTTON Produced by David THOMSON See page 12

Contributors

Arranged By:
Heather Sutton
Produced By:
David Thomson

Ttppett
Cantata: Crown of the Year
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto)
IPSWICH CO-OPERATIVE GIRLS' CHOIR
Chorus-Master,
Valda Plucknett
MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER Orchestra Richard Adeney (flute) Norman Knight (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe) Louis Left (clarinet)
Philip Jones (trumpet)
James Blades (percussion)
Charles Fletcher (percussion) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) Adrian Beers (bass)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Conducted by the composer Second broadcast

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Chorus-Master:
Valda Plucknett
Flute:
Norman Knight
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Clarinet:
Philip Jones
Unknown:
James Blades
Unknown:
Charles Fletcher
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Ivor McMahon
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Viola Tunnard

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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