Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Jan Smeterlin (piano)
A series of eight talks about his work and his contributions to the history of men
5-' Stonehenge and the Bronze Age'
by Stuart Piggott , Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh
(Leader, Paul Beard )
BBC Chorus
(Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Orator, Valentine Dyall
Extracts from ' The Iliad,' a Chinese poem by Li-Tai-Po. Walt Whitman's ' Drum-Taps,' and poems by Wilfred Owen and Robert Nichols form the texts of this symphony inspired by the 1914-18 war and dedicated to the memory of the composer's brother.
The work of one who had himself been wounded on the Somme, it is a vivid resurrection of the universal emotions aroused by war which have persisted since the days of antiquity
A psycho-morality play of modern life, written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Special music for flute and voice devised by William Alwyn
[Starring] James McKechnie and Martita Hunt
Third programme of a series presented by Steuart Wilson
Marjorie Avis (soprano) Trevor Anthony (bass) The Fleet Street Choir
(Conductor, T. B. Lawrence )
String Ensemble
Eric Gritton (organ)
Talk by Reinhold Niebuhr
Professor of Christian Ethics and-the Philosophy of Religion in Union Theological Seminary, New York
Two Sonatas: E minor; F played by Gareth Morris (flute) and Winifred Davey (piano)
Passages from the Bible read by Robert Speaight, and organ music played by George Thalben-Ball