Talk by Douglas Cooper on the French painter Jacques-Louis David
This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of David's birth, and an exhibition of his work is at present being held at the Tate Gallery
Henry Cummings (baritone)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Philharmonic String Trio
An enquiry into
Shakespeare's use of music
Written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
The Players: Marjorie Westbury. Alan Wheatley , Dennis Arundell , Geoffrey Dunn , Dudley Jones. Nicolette Bernard. Yvonne Coulette , Julian Orde , Anthony Jacobs , Mary O'Farrell , Gavin Gordon , and Brian Nissen
The Musicians: The Dolmetsch Consort of Viols and Recorders (led by Carl Dolmetsch ); with Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Diana Poulton (lute), Joseph Saxby (virginals). and John Wills (harpsichord)
Music supervised by Elizabeth Poston (A new production of Music in Shakespeare,' first broadcast . on January 27. 1947)
H. N. Brailsford gives personal recollections of his friend H. W. Nevinson -scholar, journalist, and man of action
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
Music and the Nineties
Illustrated talk by Constant Lambert
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) Alexander Henderson (bass)
Frederick Grinke (violin)
David Martin (violin)
James Whitehead (cello)
Arnold Goldsbrough
(organ and harpsichord)
Sonata of four parts, in F (The
Golden Sonata)
In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)
Violin Sonata in G minor
Song on a ground: Solitude
Sonata of four parts. in, A 'minor
The first two items (ed. Britten) are to be repeated on December 29
Second of two talks by O. D. Darlington , D.SC., F.R.S.
Dr. Darlington holds that the acceptance and application of scientific research and discovery can help our society to adjust Itself to rapidly changing conditions-an adjustment on which the survival of our nation and of our culture may depend
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 22)