The first of a series of six programmes of music written, at the request of the Church, by contemporary composers
Introductory talk by the Rev. J. W. Poole , Precentor of Canterbury Cathedral
Missa Cantuariensis by Edmund Rubbra
Introduced by the composer, and sung by the choir of Canterbury Cathedral: conductor. Gerald H. Knight
Talk by C. V. Wedgwood , author of the book ' William the Silent'
Chopin
Ballade No. 1, In G minor, played by Robert Casadesus on gramophone records
The facts about atomic energy from the night in July 1945, when the first atomic bomb ' was exploded in a desolate valley of New Mexico, up to the present day. Music composed by Hubert Clifford and played by an orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson. Programme written and produced by Nesta Pain
Griller Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin), Jack O'Brien (violin), Philip Burton (viola), Colin Hampton (cello)
David Franklin (bass)
(from ' Romeo and Juliet')
Arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Noel Eadie (soprano)
Joan Taylor (soprano)
by Max Beerbohm
An account of one Ladbroke Brown (dramatist), incorporating a broadcast of his uncompleted tragedy in five acts—'Savonarola'
Arranged for broadcasting by John Cheatle
Produced by Felix Felton
Also St Francis of Assisi, Leonardo da Vinci Dante Cosimo de Medici, Pope Julius II, Cesare Borgia , friars, sacristans, cobblers, apprentices, cloaked figures, Papal Legates, Guelfs, Ghibellines, and other noted figures of the Renaissance, played by Laurence Payne , Victor Fairley , Harry Hutchinson , Charles Leno , Lionel Stevens. Duncan Mclntyre , Maria Barry. Ernest Sefton , Alexander Sarner , and Arthur- Ridley
Edited by Anthony Lewis
6-Brahms
Motets and organ music
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
BBC Singers:
(Margaret Godley , Margaret Rees , Maude Baker , Margaret Rolfe , William McMillan , Emlyn Bebb , Leonard Hub bard, and Stanley Riley )
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
A short story by Elizabeth Bowen , arranged for broadcasting by the author and read by Beatrice Curtis Brown
