Talk by E. M. Forster
(organ)
From St. Mark's. North Audley Street
' The Poetic Character '
Written for broadcasting by J. Middleton Murry
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The date is May 1820. Keats, shortly te sail for Italy, is imagined to call at the Highgate home of Dr. Gillman, who has undertaken to cure Coleridge of the opium habit
Octet played by Jack Kessler (violin) Hans Geiger (violin)
Bernard Davis (viola)
George Roth (cello)
Robert Meyer (double-bass)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Edward Wilson (bassoon)
David Burditt (horn)
A literary scenario translated by Arthur Waley from the allegory by the Japanese writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Reader, Valentine Dyall
A studio performance of the eighteenth-century ballad opera by Charles Dibdin
Madame Elli Tompuri , who has herself translated much of Finland's poetry into English. talks about the Kalevala, Finland's great national epic, and about more modern poets. She quotes both from translations and from the Finnish.
Carl Dolmetsch (recorder)
String Ensemble
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)
A Broken Voice (Sibelius): Helsinki
University Choir
Hail Moon. and Love Song (Sibelius):
Finlandia Male Voice Choir
Shepherd's Jov At Milan, and Song of the Devils Slave (Palmgren): Finlandia Male Voice Choir on gramophone records
A short story by Elisabeth Bowen
Read by Alan Blair
