by Geoffrey Chaucer
Arranged for broadcasting in seven parts by Nevill Coghill
Part 5
Produced by Stephen Potter
Talk by Michael MacOwan
Modern productions of Shakespeare present problems of a peculiarly difficult kind. Michael MacOwan. himself a producer of both modern and classical plays, discusses these difficulties and some of the ways in which the problems have been solved at Stratford and elsewhere
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
Sonata No. 2, in A minor played by Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
A criticism of recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme
Liza Fuchsova (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
A summary by H. V. Hodson of some of the ideas put forward in his recent book, Twentieth-Century Empire; with comments by S. H. Frankel , a South African who holds the Chair of Colonial Economic Affairs at Oxford, and G. S. Graham , a Canadian who is Reader in History at London University
String Quartet in E flat played by the Kyndel Quartet on gramophone records
