Settings of poems by Goethe
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Laurence Holmes (baritone)
Josephine Lee (piano)
An den Mond (First setting); Die
Liebe (Klarchens Lied): An Mignon; Die Liebende schreibt: Geistesgruss; Suleïka (Was bedeutet die Bewegung?; Am Flusse; Der Fischer; willkommen und Abschied
A sermon in crude melodrama by Bernard Shaw.
(Recording of the broadcast on January 28)
(Michael Golden broadcasts by permission of the Stratford Festival Theatre; George Cross, of George T. Smith)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Alceo Galliera
Part 1
by Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock, O.B.E., A.F.C., M.P.
In this talk Group Captain Wilcock summarises the history of man's achievement in the air, and discusses the implications of modern flying in the fields of commerce, sociology, and politics.
Part 2
From the People's Palace, London
A serial survey of some contemporary verse-2
The Poet: Dylan Thomas
The Critic: T. W. Earp
A sequence of four programmes Is devoted to each Poet and Critic. The first comprises a number of poems selected by the Critic, as an introduction. In the second the Critic expresses his personal attitude to poetry, and his appreciation of the Poet. In the third the Poet replies. The fourth programme, introduced also by the Critic, consists of further examples of the Poet's work, which they have chosen in collaboration
Presented by E. J. King Bull
* Operatic Singing'
1— The Technical Basis of a Good Style': a talk by Desmond Shawe - Taylor, illustrated by gramophone records of past and present singers
Reginald Kell (clarinet)
Colin Horsley (piano)
4 Zorian String Quartet
5—' Champion of Freedom,' by Rose Macaulay. Produced by Rayner Heppenstall