Sheherazade
Asie; La flûte enchantée; L'indifférent sung by Suzanne Danco (soprano) with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records
J. Isaacs considers this question in the relation of poets and the contemporary world
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Arthur Fear (baritone)
Sheffield Philharmonic Choir
BBC Northern Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Groves
From the City Hall, Sheffield
Part 1
John Hayward reviews the Sandars Lectures in Bibliography given by John Carter at Cambridge in 1947 which have recently been published
(Concert continued)
2 — * The Journey to Japan' by J. Bronowski with Leo Genn as the Traveller and Brenda Bruce , Bonar Colleano
Charles Goldner. Carleton Hobbs
Production by Robert Gittings
' The Journey to Japan ' is the inner record of a visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The traveller ;s a scientific observer, but the impressions he sets down are not merely those of physical appearance. They form a spiritual enquiry, an attempt to arrive at a philosophy for our time
played by the London Harpsichord Ensemble
(Fifth of a series of programmes by the London Harpsichord Ensemble)
Wilfrid Thesiger describes a 1,500-mile journey he made last winter through unknown parts of the Empty Quarter of Southern Arabia.
Mr. Thesiger is a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, under whose auspices he made his journey.
Toccata
Symphony for organ
(first broadcast performance) played by Arnold Richardson (organ)
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Alan Bullock. Fellow of New College, Oxford, reviews the recently published English translation 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
Sonatina in A minor played by Antonio Brosa (violin) Kathleen Long (piano)