Blech String Quartet
Clifford Curzon (piano)
6.20 app. Interlude
Another programme by the Blech String Quartet: Wednesday at 8.35

by Sir Charles Webster , K.C.M.G.
Has British policy radically altered within a lifetime? Or is there an underlying continuity in our foreign policy that derives from constant factors? Sir Charles Webster examines these questions of British foreign relations in the light of history

' L'Incoronazione di Poppea ' with Mary Linde (soprano). Eric Greene (tenor), Harry Barnes (tenor)
Geraint Jones (organ)
Hans Redlich (harpsichord)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Diana Poulton (lute)
Morley College Chamber Choir
Morley College Orchestra
Conducted by Walter Goehr
The work edited by H. F. Redlich
Part

Guy Chapman. Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds, examines the tempo and temper of the growth of administrative responsibilities, local and central, in late Victorian days
Next talk: tomorrow at 8.55

' L'Incoronazione di Poppea '
Part 2

Last autumn the painter. Jack Yeats , recorded a conversation with the poet and critic. Thomas MacGreevy , in which they discussed Yeats's memories of the West of Ireland, and London fifty years ago. This evening's programme consists of excerpts from these recordings

A London Symphony played by the Queen's Hall Orchestra
Conductor, Sir Henry J. Wood on gramophone records

A selection from the satirical ballads of William Plomer , made and read by the author
Produced by Patric Dickinson