'Ben Jonson as a Literary Critic': Professor J. Isaacs reviews 'Ben Jonson' (volume 8), by Percy Simpson
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A selective survey in six parts, by W.L. Hanchant, of the poetry of the U.S.A., from its beginnings to the present day
Readers, Guy Kingsley-Poynter and Ellinore Stuart.
(Postponed from last Tuesday. The final programme in the series will be broadcast on Saturday. June 14. at 7.0 p.m.)
Full performance in French of 'La Prise de Troie'
Opera in three acts and four tableaux
Words and music by Hector Berlioz
Cast, in order of singing: [see below]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, Oscar Lampe)
BBC Theatre Chorus (Chorus-Master, John Clements)
Conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
The action takes place in the plains and city of Troy in classical times
7.30-8.5 Act 1 - A camp abandoned by the Greeks
8.25-9.5 Act 2 - Before the Citadel
9.25-9.55 Act 3 - First tableau: The tent of Aeneas. Second tableau: The Temple of Vesta, and the sack of Troy
Further performance on Friday of this week
Harold Rutland writes on 'Berlioz and Virgil' on p. 24
A new series about the archaeologist and his work
A programme about the Megalithic Long Barrows of the West Country. With Elsie M. Clifford, F.S.A., and Professor Stuart Piggott.
Introduced by Glyn Daniel, Ph.D.
(Next broadcast in the series: tomorrow at 9.35)
Talk by Humphry House
W. Baring Pemberton discusses Cobbett's opposition to the education of the lower classes in early nineteenth-century England
Quartet in D minor (Voces intimse), played by the Budapest String Quartet on gramophone records
