Th;s week Professor E. N. da C. Andrade F R S,... introduces: W. E. Le Gros Clark F R.s. ,, Professor of Anatomv in the University of Oxford, and F. E. Zeuner , d.sc... Professor of Environmental Archteology in the University of London, on ' The Link between Man and the Apes-New Light on Human Ancestry': also J D. Cockcroft. C.B.E., F.R.S., Director of the Atomic Energy Experimental Station at Didcot. who talks about atomic energy
by David Jones
An experiment in writing made between 1929 and 1937. prompted by what the writer saw and felt as an infantryman In the London Welsh Battalion. R.W.F., on the Western Front. 1915-18. Adapted for radio and produced by Douglas Cleverdon : music by Elizabeth Poston. conducted by Maurice Miles. With selections from the original preface spoken by David Jones
An opera by Henry Purcell
Edited by Edward J. Dent
Produced by Constant Lambert and Stanford Robinson
Chorus of courtiers, people. witches, and sailors
BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by John Clements )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra Boris Ord (harpsichord)
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Narration written by Dennis Arundell and spoken by Valentine Dyall
Act 1
Scene 1: The Palace
Scene 2 : The Cave
Act 2
The Grove
Act 3
The Ships
An episode, being a transcription of the Iliad, Book 3, by Patric Dickinson , with music specially composed by Lennox Berkeley. Produced by Val Gielgud
Antony Hopkins surveys the contemporary musical scene from the point of view of a young composer
A programme of poetry for several voices by Elizabeth Berridge . Produced by E. J. King Bull
Virtuoso Wind Quintet:
Edward Walker (flute), John McCarthy - (oboe). Reginald Kell (clarinet), Tom Wightman (bassoon). Alan Hyde (horn)
Gareth Morris (flute)
Angus Morrison (piano)
