A poem in twelve books by John Milton
Books 11 and 12 Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
and COUPERIN
Two Sonatas by Corelli played by Antonio Brosa (violin), and Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)
Harpsichord music by Couperin played by Aimee van der Wiele
An anthology of poetry and prose for Christmas, selected by Brother George Every , s.S.M.
('The Water Carrier') An opera in three acts by Cherubini Libretto by Jean Nicolas Boullly
(A studio performance in French)
Soldiers. guards. villagers
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. Oscar Lampe )
Conductor,
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Repetiteur. Leo Wurmser
The action takes place in and around Paris in the year 1647
Act 1
Mikell's home in Paris
A talk by The Rt. Hon. Viscount Samuel ,
G.C.B., G.B.E.
Act 2
At one of the gates of Paris
Talk by A. P. d'Entreves, Fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Italian Studies at Oxford
There have been various candidates for the honour of being the first Whig in history. The politics of Thomas of Aquino, the great thirteenth-century philosopher, are the subject of this
Act 3
Semos's farm in the village of Gonesse
Prose readings In Interludes between programmes this week are descriptions of characters from eighteenth-century novels, selected by Joyce Lindsay
