Extracts from Langland's poem
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
Produced by Stephen Potter
Readers:
Felix Aylmer , Cathleen Nesbitt
Deryck Guyler , Olaf Pooley
Cyril Gardiner , Marjorie Westbury
Parry Jones (tenor)
Louis Kentner (piano)
Talk by J. Isaacs
In 1934 a new manuscript of Malory's writings, which provides a text independent of Caxton. was discovered In the Fellows' Library of Winchester by Mr. W. F. Oakeshott. The Winchester text has recently been published. In an elaborate edition prepared by Professor Vinaver of Manchester University. The theories advanced by Professor Vinaver about the life and works of Malory and the significance and value of the Winchester text are examined this evening by Mr. Isaacs
from the Cambridge Summer Festival of Seventeenth-century
Music and Drama
Choir of King's College, Cambridge Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)
David Willcocks (organ)
Instrumental Ensemble
Strings of the Cambridge University
Musical Society
Conductor, Boris Ord
From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
William Plomer introduces his own selection of passages from the works of Melville and Conrad. The extracts are read by James McKechnie and Gerik Schjelderup
(John Lehmann will Introduce the last of this series on August 10)
played by the Philharmonic String Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola) James Whitehead (cello)
Prose readings in interludes between programmes this week have been selected by Eric Gillett from the Notebooks of Samuel Butler
