by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe from the translation by William Archer
Produced by Val Gielgud
by Arthur Vesselo
Human experience is not limited to conscious knowledge. Outside consciousness there are other modes of human experience, covering in some respects a far wider field. The arts draw on the whole field; and among the arts, the cinema has an approach peculiar to itself. The general relationship of the cinema to the regions of experience outside consciousness is the subject of this talk, and particular reference is made to an important new book by Siegfried Kracauer. ' From Caligari to Hitler '
Peter Pears (tenor)
John Ireland (piano)
The Land of Lost Content (six songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' by A. E. Housman ):
The Lent Lily Ladslove
Goal and Wicket The Vain Desire The Encounter Epilogue
Love and Friendship (Emily Bronte) Hawthorn Time (A. E. Housman ) I have twelve oxen (anon.)
The Trellis (Aldous Huxley )
My true love hath my heart (Sir
Philip Sidney )
A talk by Ralph Barton Perry
Professor R. B. Perry , the distinguished American philosopher who has been delivering this year's Gifford Lectures , argues that a specifically American mind ' does exist, and analyses the elements that compose it
Joan Alexander (soprano)
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
Rene Soames (tenor)
David Franklin (bass)
BBC Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Nadia Boulanger
(first performance in Europe)
6—' An Indian View ' by B. Rajan
In the concluding talk in this series, Dr. Rajan gives an Indian's view of the British in India, and compares impressions, he had of them in India with those he has formed after seeing them in their own country
Suite No. 6, for cello piccolo
(Bach): Carel Boomkamp
Suite in G, Op. 131c No. 1, for unaccompanied cello ( Westbury Reger ) : Emanuel Feuermann
Sequence of eight readings from
Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' and seven talks relating to the poem
Edited by Herbert Read
The sixth reading by Hallam Fordham is from Book 9, and is introduced by Ormerod Greenwood