Emelie Hooke (soprano) Kyla Greenbaum (piano)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Cecil James (bassoon)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Emanuel Hurwitz and Jorgen Laulund (violins)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Conducted by David Ellenberg
(bv permission of the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company)

Andre Gide reads from his French translation of ' Anthony and Cleopatra'

The English scene and the English character as they are illustrated in the plays of Shakespeare. With a commentary by G. H. W. Rylands , who compiled the programme. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Programme of Music inspired by Works of Shakespeare Janine Micheau (soprano)
Megan Foster (soprano)
Betty Bannerman (contralto)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part l
Overture:
King Lear Sicilienne ; Hero's Aria (Beatrice and Benedict)
(Janine Micheau )
Romeo's Reverie and the Feast at the Capulets; Love-Scene: Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

An excerpt from ' Phoenix,' the posthumous papers of D. H. Lawrence. read by Gerik Schjelderup

Part 2
Trio of Hero, Beatrice, and Ursula
(Beatrice and Benedict)
(Janine Micheau , Megan Foster , and Betty Bannerman )
Funeral March from Hamlet, with Chorus

A serial survey of some contemporary verse-3
The Poet: Stephen Spender
The Critic : Roy Fuller
A sequence of four programmes is devoted to each Poet and Critic. The first comprises a number of poems selected bv 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
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' The Figured Bass': the third of four talks by Michael Tippett , illustrated by Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Douglas Ratcliffe (tenor), Walter Bergmann (harpsichord), Geraint Jones (organ), and a section of the Morley College Choir, Recorders, and Orchestra (conductor, Michael Tippett )

on gramophone records
From ' As You Like It':
Under the Greenwood Tree (Artie, arr. Fellowes): Steuart Wilson (tenor)
It was a lover and his lass (Morley, arr. fellowes): Steuart Wilson (tenor)
Pretty Ring Time (Warlock): Roy Henderson (baritone)
From ' Much Ado About Nothing':
Sigh no more. ladies (Warlock):) Roy Henderson (baritone)
From ' Measure for Measure
Take, 0 take those lips away (Warlock): Roy Henderson (baritone)
From ' Twelfth Night':
Come away. death (anon., arr. Greaves): Steuart Wilson (tenor)
Come away. death (Brahms): E. Lough. D. Horton. and R. Mallett (trebles)
Come away. death (Sibelius): Marian Anderson (contralto)

For at least eight centuries there have been wild swans at Abbotsbury, which is now the largest swannery in the British Isles. Tonight Brian Vesey-FitzGerald and Fred Lexster, swan herd to the Earl of Ilchester, tell the story of the Abbotsbury swans with recordings made there by Ludwig Koch.
Produced by Desmond Hawkins