Henry Cummings (baritone)
Louis Kentner (piano)
Piano:
From Années de Pèlerinage. Premiere Annee, Suisse:
Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Au lac de Wallenstadt Pastorale
Au b.ord d'une Source
Songs:
Der du von dem Himme) bist
Der Fischerknabe; Der Hirt: Der
Alpenjager (Schiller's William Tell)
Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam Wo weilt er?
Piano:
Orage Vallee d'Obermann
A series of eight talks about his work and his contributions to the history of men
7—'Archaeology and the Ancient Historian'
by the Rev. M. P. Charlesworth , President of St. John's College, Cambridge
3-' Aristotle's Mother:
An Argument in Athens '
Written for broadcasting by Herbert Read and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
With Alan Wheatley as Aristotle, Ivan Samson as Protogenes, and Norman Shelley as Apelles
The date is 330 B.C. Protogenes. the painter, brings a portrait of Aristotle's mother, Phaestis. to the Lyceum, where the philosopher is teaching. Perplexed by Aristotle's utilitarian view of art, Protogenes later seeks the company of a fellow-painter, Apelles, and Aristotle's view is condemned by the two followed by Interlude
BBC Chorus
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Welbeck String Orchestra
Conducted by Maurice Miles
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
A study of the evolution and background of the first great dictator of the modern type
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Special music by Elisabeth Lutyens
followed by Interlude
Trio in F minor, Op. 65 played by The Czech Trio:
Maria Lidka (violin), Karel Horitz (cello), Lisa Marketta (piano)
Talk by A. J. Ayer
Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford
Passages from the Bible read by Robert Speaight , and organ music played by George Thalben-Ball
From the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris
Prose readings in interludes between programmes this week will be descriptions of places and scenes selected by Geoffrey Grigson
