Sir Osbert Sitwell reads his short story
A play with music
Text by C. F. Ramuz
Adapted for broadcasting by Alfred Roulet in collaboration with the author, and translated by D. F. Aitken
Music by Igor Stravinsky
A section of the Philharmonia Orchestra
(Led by Thomas Carter )
Conducted by Leighton Lucas Production by Robert Gittings
Alan Bullock , Fellow of New College. Oxford, reviews the English translation, published this month, of the memoirs in which De Tocqueville gives his famous account of the revolution of 1848 and the subsequent failure of France's Second Republic
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Wilhelm Furtwangler
Part 1
God Save the King
Overture: Egmont
Symphony No. 6. in F (Pastoral)
A talk by Mania Harrari , who recently returned from Palestine
Part 2
Symphony No. 5, in C minor From the Royal Albert Hall
talks about her later work
Poems read by Dylan Thomas
Produced by E. J. King Bull
Lucille Wallace and Clifford Curzon (harpsichords)
Members of the Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Nadia Boulanger
A personal impression by the Earl of Lytton
