Gwen Catley (soprano)
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
George James (bass)
London Baroque Ensemble
(first broadcast performance)
Programme arranged by Karl Haas
Winston Churchill's memoirs reviewed by Sir Charles Webster
Today the first volume of Mr. Churchill's memoirs of the Second World War is published in this country under the title of "The Gathering Storm". It covers the years between the wars, and the war months of 1939-40 up to Mr. Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister.
(Sir Charles Webster, K.C.M.G., holds the Stevenson Chair of International History in London University.)
sung by Engel Lund
Accompanied by Ferdinand Rauter
Rayner Heppenstall to
Strasbourg with Anthony Jacobs
Hugh Munro and Arthur Young
Production by the author
('The Departure')
Comedy opera in one act by Eugen d'Albert
Libretto by Count Sporck
Orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Conducted by Walter Martin
Scene: the garden room of a castle in Central Germany. Time: towards the end of the eighteenth century
Talk by A. P. Ryan
Sir Harry and his wife, Lady Smith, gave their names to places famous in South African history. Sir Harry served with British armies all over the world, and made himself sufficiently famous to be mentioned by Wellington and Thackeray.
Doda Conrad (bass)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Loewenguth String Quartet
. String Quartet in B flat, Op. 18 No. 6
Mit einem gemalten Band. Op. 83 No. 8 Aus Goethe's Faust. Op. 75 No. 3 Seehs Lieder, Op. 48
In questa toniba oscura
String Quartet in F minor. Op. 96
Talk by Michael Bonavia on George Stephenson
by William Collins
Readers, Alastair Duncan and Alastair Bannerman