July 30, 1818-December 19,1848
Peggy Ashcroft reads a selection from her poetry
Chosen by James McFarlan
Sevilla (Suite espanola)
Iberia. Book 1: Evocation; El puerto;
Fete-Dieu a Seville
Mercedes Olivera (piano)
A play in verse by R. C. Scriven
Music composed by Frank Wade sung by the West Riding Singers
Production by Rex Tucker
The search for the earthly paradise has haunted the mind of man since the Fall. Perhaps its most perfect expression was in the story of St. Brandon's search for the Isles of the Blessed, Englished in ' The Golden Legend ' by William Caxton. The author has attempted to re-tell that story of the quest for Ultima Thule once again, as Sir Thomas More did in ' Utopia,' and as poets have attempted to tell it from time to time each in his own fashion
Last of four programmes of music from his operas, prepared by Anthony Lewis
' Julius Caesar '
Act 1
English translation by Geoffrey Dunn
Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
A section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Talk by Algernon Cecil
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Talk by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel occasioned by the publication of the 1948 edition of this guide to the hotels and restaurants of France
String Quintet in D (K.593) played by the Pro Arte Quartet
Alfred Hobday (viola) on gramophone records