by Matthew Arnold
Readers: Margot van der Burgh
Ale Clunes , and Basil Jones
Produced by Christopher Hassall
sung by Irene Joachim (soprano) with Ernest Lush (piano)
Romance (Paul Bourget )
Harmonie du soir (Charles Baudelaire ) Ariettes oubliées (Paul Verlaine ):
C'est l'extase
II pleure dans man coeur
L'ombre des arbres dans la riviere Paysages belges—Chevaux de bois Aquarelles: Green; Spleen
Fetes galantes (Paul Verlaine ):
Les mgenus Le faune
Colloque sentimental
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
Preludes and Fugues from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier:
No. 2, in C minor No. 15. in G
No 13. in F sharp No. 9. in E
No 17. in A flat
No. 8. in E flat minor played on the clavichord by Ralph Kirkpatrick
by Gustave. Courbet
In the third of a series of programmes devoted to single works of art the speakers are Benedict Nicholson and William Coldstream
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductors :
Sir Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M .
Edwin Fischer (piano)
(Conducted by the composer)
Tyrone Guthrie. whose reputation as a theatrical producer has tended to make people forget that he was once a radio producer and a writer of radio plays. comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme
selected, described, and sung by Engel Lund with Ferdinand Rauter at the piano
1-Love Songs
Written by Joe Burroughs
Produced by R. D. Smith
The curious account of the forgery by a Ruthven schoolmaster, James Macpherson (1736-1796), of a series of poems including the epics ' Fingal ' and ' Temora ' allegedly translated from the Gaelic of the third-century bard Ossian; of their popularity and influence at home and abroad, and of their ultimate exposure and discredit after years of literary controversy with Moultrie Kelsall as James Macpherson Ralph Truman as Dr. Samuel Johnson and James McKechnie as the Narrator