A series of six programmes devised by Diana Poulton
3-Thomas Morley and Alfonso Ferraboseo
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
René Soames (tenor) Diana Poulton (lute)
Reflections on John Aubrey
Talk by Oliver Lawson Dick
John Aubrey was an eminent seventeenth-century historian, and author of one of the most amusing, malicious, and valuable biographical collections in the English language. The 250th anniversary of his death occurred this year. Oliver Lawson Dick has just completed a new edition of Aubrey's ' Brief Lives ' and has reviewed the evidence on his life and personality. This talk is the third contribution to the series on English scholars
Pietro Scarpini (piano)
Turin Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Mario Rossi
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by M. R. Ridley
Sebastian Shaw ,
Frederick Lloyd , and Leon Quartermaine in 'KING HENRY IV
PART 2
Fanfares and Incidental music composed and directed by Antony Hopkins
Produced by Peter Watts
The play will be broadcast in two parts with a short interval