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A weekly programme of recent records
Overture: Iphigenia in Aulis (Gluck)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bohumir Liska

8.17 The evening; I wonder; Morning reflections (sung in Swedish) (Adolf Lindblad )
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) Jan Eyron (piano)

8.26 Incidental music: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
Rae Woodland (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto)
Netherlands Radio Choir
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Haitink

Contributors

Musicians:
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Bohumir Liska
Soprano:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Pianist:
Jan Eyron
Soprano:
Rae Woodland
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Singers:
Netherlands Radio Choir
Musicians:
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Sicilian Vespers ' (Verdi)
PHILHARMONIAORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
9.40* Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat major (Emperor) (Beethoven)
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER
10.20* Ballet Suite: The Seasons
(Glazunov)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE Orchestra Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Conducted By:
Ferdinand Leitner
Conducted By:
Albert Wolff

Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Smetana's The Bartered Bride
(produced May 30, 1866) by MARK LUBBOCK
The Water and the Fire by ANTHONY MILNER
Dads and The Difficulty of Being: book review by NOEL GOODWIN
Walking Encyclopedia by SIDNEY HARRISON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Anthony Milner
Review By:
Noel Goodwin
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison

A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Chorus of Yeomen of the Guard. Gentlemen, Citizens, etc.
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT Orchestra Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
† Produced by MICHAEL Moores and PETER BRYANT
Scene: Tower Green; Date. the sixteenth century
Alan Dudley is in ' Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric Theatre. London; Jean Allister broadcasts by permission of Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Janice Chapman by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera June 12: The Gondoliers

Contributors

Singers:
John McCarthy
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
Michael Moores
Produced By:
Peter Bryant
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Jean Allister
Unknown:
Janice Chapman
Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower:
Donald Francke
Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Towerspoken by:
Rolf Lefebvre
Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death:
Max Worthley
Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death spoken by:
Dinsdale Landen
Sergeant Meryll, of the Yeomen of the Guard:
Richard Golding
Sergeant Meryll, of the Yeomen of the Guard spoken by:
Julian Somers
Leonard Meryll, his son:
Edgar Fleet
Leonard Meryll, his sonspoken by:
Michael Spice
Jack Point, a strolling jester:
Peter Pratt
Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor:
Alan Dudley
First Yeoman:
Leslie Fyson
Second Yeoman:
John Noble
First Citizen spoken by:
Wilfred Babbage
Second Citizen spoken by:
Douglas Hankin
Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer:
Janice Chapman
spoken by:
Sheila Manahan
Phoebe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll'sdaughter:
Jean Allister
Phoebe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll'sdaughter spoken by:
Pauline Yates
Dame Carruthers, Housekeeper to the Tower:
Monica Sinclair
Dame Carruthers, Housekeeper tospoken by:
Shirley Cooklin
Kate, her niece:
Ursula Connors
Kate, her niece spoken by:
Denise Buckley

Romantic opera in two acts Libretto by FELICE ROMANI
Music by Vincenzo Bellini first broadcast in this country
Chorus of pirates, fisherfolk, courtiers, soldiers, etc.
Turin CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master,
Ruggero Magnini
Conducted by Mario Rossi
The action takes place in Sicily during the thirteenth century
ACT 1
Scene 1 A sea shore on the coast of Sicily
Scene 2 Outside the Palace of Caldora

Contributors

Unknown:
Felice Romani
Music By:
Vincenzo Bellini
Chorus-Master:
Ruggero Magnini
Conducted By:
Mario Rossi

7: International relations and decision theory by ANATOL RAPOPORT
Professor of Mathematical Biology Mental Health Research Institute University of Michigan
The idea that the conduct of international relations can be suided by scientific principles is an Intriguing one. Professor Rapoport suggests that the new techniques of decision theory can help in introducing rationality into decision-making at the international level-an application of these techniques which was not envisaged when they were originally conceived

2: Woodrow Wilson and Peace Moves
† by PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. LINK
Edwards Professor of American History,
Princeton University, U.S.A.
In the second of this series of talks Professor Arthur S. Link , the leading authority on the life and policies of Woodrow Wilson , describes the numerous attempts made by the American President to bring the war to a compromise solution. By a tragic irony his sincere and often statesmanlike initiatives ended, as all the world knows, in Wilson leading the American people for the first time in history into a major European conflict
General editor of the series. ROBERT BLAKE of Christ Church, Oxford

Contributors

Unknown:
Woodrow Wilson
Unknown:
Professor Arthur S. Link
Unknown:
Professor Arthur S. Link
Unknown:
Woodrow Wilson
Unknown:
Robert Blake

by Giles Cooper with Max Adrian
A small group of speculators are buying up strips of the Spanish coast for development. In a remote bay is a village that has not changed its way of life for a thousand years.
With Emilio Reyes , Hector Ross Basil Jones , Mary Wimbush and Elizabeth Proud
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Third broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Giles Cooper
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Emilio Reyes
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Unknown:
Basil Jones
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Pepe, Duke of Pasamonte:
Max Adrian
Lars Petersen:
Trader Faulkner
Freddy Hawkhurst:
Julian Glover
Helen, Duchess of Pasamonte:
Ann Murray
Harold Girling:
George A. Cooper
The Count of Tiburon:
Roger Delgado
Carlos:
Gordon Gardner
Enrique de Tiburon:
Timothy Harley

Network Three

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