In the last of his three reminiscent talks William Armstrong tells some more stories of personal adventure
Mascia Predit (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)
A dramatisation from the ' Satyricon ' of Petronius
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Music by Alan Rawsthorne
Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 played by the Martin String Quartet
Talk by Ormerod Greenwood on this Victorian novelist and journalist. Reader, Catherine Lacey
Masque by James Shirley
Music by Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons
(Edited by Professor E. J. Dent )
The Presenter of the Masque:
Frederick Allen
The Actors:
The Singers:
London Chamber Singers
Strings of the London Chamber Orchestra
George Malcolm and Thurston Dart (harpsichords) Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Production by Raymond Raikes
of Baron le Despenser by P. H. Newby
Piano Sonata No. 2, in G played by Peter Cooper
Selections from the works of W. B.Yeats , Laura Riding , Robert Graves , and W. H. Auden
Readers: Simona Pakenham
Harry Hutchinson , Michael Forbes
Andante and Variations, Op. 46 for two pianos, two cellos, horn played by Harry Isaacs (piano) York Bowen (piano)
James Whitehead (cello)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Dennis Brain (horn)