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WELBECK STRING ORCHESTRA Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor, MAURICE MILES

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NETHERLANDS RADIO
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JEAN FOURNET
Recordings made available by courtesy of the Swiss Broadcasting Service and the Netherlands Radio Union

London STRING Trio
PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
EILEEN CROXFORD (cello) PARKHOUSE (piano)

conducts the tBBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Leavins
In music from the operetta* of Offenbach, with Joyce BLACKHAM (mezzo-soprano) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) and THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
The programme Includes music from The Tales of Hoffmann, La Belle Heline, and La Vie Parisienne
Joyce Blackham broadcasts by permission of Sadler's WeUs Opera Company

Chamber Music at the Proms-1
MAGDA LASZLO (soprano)
DOUGLAS WHITTAKER ( flute) COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet)
GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (bassoon)
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (bassoon) WILLIAM OVERTON (trumpet) IAN MACKINTOSH (trumpet)
ALFRED FLASZYNSKI (trombone) GEOFFREY LINDON (bass-trombone)
MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Sir MALCOLM SARGENT
Part 1

† CHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in London and the South-East next weekend and are not being broadcast

Part 2
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Second broadcast
A series of three programmes reIntroducing last season's chief innovation

50-80 words a minute
Compiled by MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
Reporting speeds: Wednesdays 6.30 80 to 120 words a minute:
Saturdays. 11.20 a.m. (Home) A booklet Is available

Lesson 17
Un coup de telephone
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of Louis BLONCOURT
Written and produced by ELSIE FERGUSON
Language consultant, PAUL COUSTER
Repeated on Friday at 7.4
A booklet and records are available

Planning the use of land by L. DUDLEY STAMP Professor Emeritus of Social Geography. University of London
Produced by ROSEMARY JELLIS
A booklet Is available

as a writer and a personality
Her husband LEONARD WOOLF , in the course of an interview with JOANNA RICHARDSON , dis. cusses Virginia Woolf 's method of writing, her character and its influence on her work

Rudolf Serkin (piano)
London
Symphony Orchestra
Leader; Erich Gruenberg
Conducted by Colin Davis
Part 1

An interpretation of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century by JOHN ROGERS
Mr. Rogers suggests that Galileo, Bruno, Kepler. and Copernicus can be seen as having made scientific advances through an aesthetic theory rather than as the result of experiments. He argues that this may be a general explanation of how major advances in science take place.

Part 2
Introduction Love Scene
Romeo at the tomb
Scherzo (Queen Mab)
Romeo alone-the fête of the Capulets

Second of two illustrated talks by J. M. COHEN
Mr. Cohen examines the Interaction of the European and the pre-Columbian tradition in the Uterature of Central and South America.
The Return of the Serpent Readers, Denis GOACHER and ALAN WHEATLEY
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS followed by an interlude at 10.51

Elizabethan Government and Society
Eight lectures given by JOEL HURSTFIELD ,
Astor Professor of English
History. University of London, at the University of East Anglla
4: The Monarchy, Parliament and the Law
Professor Hurstfield argues that the most striking thing about the Elizabethan monarchy was not its strength but its weakness. In his fourth lecture he explains why.
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