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Bath Festival
ÇHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN with JOAN CARLYLE (soprano)
Suite: The Indian Queen (Purcell)
7.15* Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge (Britten)
7..44*Suite: The Fairy Queen
(Purred) gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin
Soprano:
Joan Carlyle

On hearing the first cuckoo in spring (Delius)
Royal PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.12* Violin Concerto in B minor
(Elgar)
YEHUDI MENUHIN
NEW PHILHARMONIA Orchestra
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BouLT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Schubert
Sonatina in A minor
GYӦRGYPAUK (violin) PETER FKANKL (piano)
9.24* Songs: An die Laute
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen Fischerweise
Set mir gegriisst
DIETRICHFISCHER-DIESKAU(baritone) GERALD MOORE (piano)
9.38* Quartet movement in C minor
AMADEUS QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin) Sieamund Nisset (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
ⓢ gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Gerald Moore
Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett

Mendelssohn Chamber Music series continued
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
DEREK SIMPSON (cello) FIONA CAMERON (piano)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)

Contributors

Violin:
Neville Marriner
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Piano:
Fiona Cameron
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Piano:
David Willison

KATHARINAWOLPE(piano)
JENNIFERVYVYAN(soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) Benjamin LUXON (baritone)
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hush Maguire
Conducted by Sir MALCOLM SARGENT
Parti

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

A series of concerts given before invited audiences all over the country
This week: from
The Members' Hall,
Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
DELME STRING QUARTET Granville Jones (violin) JürgenHess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Part I

Contributors

Piano:
Havelock Nelson
Violin:
Granville Jones
Viola:
John Underwood

Part 2
5.23* Quartet in E minor. Op. 59
No. 2 (Rasumovsky) ..Beethoven
The Delme Quartet can also be heard In the Invitation Concert at
8.30 p.m. (Third): Bernadette Greevy is the subject of this week's Studio Portrait (Friday. 10 30 a.m.)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernadette Greevy

A series oftwenty programmes, intended for listeners who already have some knowledge of French. An imaginary roving reporter, Gilles Leroy. records his impressions of the different places he visits each week
7: Au pays Basquele ieu de pelote
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of Emile Harven
Language consultant. Paul Couster
Written and produced by Elsie Ferguson
First broadcast April 11. 1968

Contributors

Reporter:
Gilles Leroy.
Introduced By:
Katia Ellis
Unknown:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Paul Couster
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

Six programmes reflecting Dickens's continuing popularity
5: The Creator of Squeers by PROFESSOR PHILIP COLLINS of the University of Leicester
Reader, GARY WATSON
Dickens's concern about the rights of childhood shines through as a recurring preoccupation in his novels. In general his views on the education and welfare of children were in accord with the progressive thought of his time. but there was, as there still is. some controversy as to whether Dotheboys Hall was a fair comment on the Yorkshire boarding schools.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Philip Collins
Reader:
Gary Watson

Members of his family and friends draw on their memories in this radio portrait, which also considers his achievements as a novelist, sociologist, and popular historian
Speakers Include: SIR ARTHUR BLISS
LORD RITCHIE-CALDER MARGARET COLE , LANCELOT HOGBEN SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE KINGSLEY MARTIN
SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL
MARY ORMEROD , V. S. PRITCHETT SIR RALPH RICHARDSON WINIFRED SIMMONS FRANK SWINNERTON and G. P. WELLS
Narrator, FRANK WELLS
Produced by Robert Pocock
Third broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Bliss
Unknown:
Lord Ritchie-Calder Margaret Cole
Unknown:
Lancelot Hogben
Unknown:
Sir Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
Mary Ormerod
Unknown:
V. S. Pritchett
Unknown:
Sir Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Winifred Simmons
Unknown:
Frank Swinnerton
Produced By:
Robert Pocock

John Alldis Choir
Conductor, John Alldis
Josephine Nendick (mezzo-soprano)
John Tilbury (piano)
London Percussion Ensemble with Hilary Wilson (harp)
John Underwood (viola) John Gray (double-bass)
Ifor James Horn Quartet
Delme String Quartet
Granville Jones. Jiirgen Hess John Underwood. Joy Hall with KENNETH ESSEX (viola) and KENNETH HEATH (cello)
ⓢ Part 1

Contributors

Unknown:
John Alldis
Conductor:
John Alldis
Mezzo-Soprano:
Josephine Nendick
Piano:
John Tilbury
Harp:
Hilary Wilson
Viola:
John Underwood
Double-Bass:
John Gray
Unknown:
Granville Jones.
Unknown:
Jiirgen Hess
Unknown:
John Underwood.
Cello:
Kenneth Heath

Reflections on three basic differences between
Western and Eastern thinking tby RAYMOND PANIKKAR
Dr. Raymond Panikkar , author of The Unknown Christ of Hinduism, is a Roman Catholic priest who teaches Indian philosophy at Benares University and is adviser to the Indian Government on the Hindu Religion. During a recent visit to Britain he talked to a group of students at Westcott House, Cambridge, about philosophy. Eastern and Western.

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Panikkar
Unknown:
Dr. Raymond Panikkar

A story by Henry James
Abridged by Rayner Heppenstall
Read by CKRLETON HOBBS
Brooksmith was the perfect butler except in the matter of physical height.
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Story By:
Henry James
Abridged By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Read By:
Ckrleton Hobbs

Network Three

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