J. M. Cocking , Lecturer in French at King's College, London, talks about the French writer who died in 1898
Sonata in F, Op. 99 played by Thelma Reiss (cello)
John Wills (piano)
Patricia Ledward reads her short story
Missa Papae Marcelll sung by the Choir of Brompton Oratory Director, Henry Washington
'Boy, 1913'
by R. C. Scriven
Produced by Robert Gittings
The Inward Eye is ' that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude '-the perception of all that underlies a vivid external experience. In this programme, the first of a new series, the experience is that of a child.... what it was like to be a boy in the last year before two world wars. a child's day in the countryside when
' Even the trains, in that far-off year of grace
All ran to Bradshaw's smooth well-ordered pace '
by Nikolaus Pevsner
A series of talks on the architecture and topography of the British Isles
Frans Vroons (tenor)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
Angus Morrison (piano)
Second of four concerts of music by Fauré, Debussy and Ravel
from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
A new translation by Rex Warner
Reader. Hallam Fordham
Robert Irwin (baritone)
Peter Stadlen (piano) Gareth Morris (flute)
Frederick Stone
(harpsichord and piano)
London Chamber Orchestra
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Programme includes music by Scarlatti. Beethoven, Finzi. Wagner, Herbert Hughes and Lennox Berkeley
Read by Willoughby Gray