Short story by Alphonse Daudet
String Sextet in B flat, Op. 18 played by the Hirsch String Quartet Jean Stewart (viola)
James Whitehead (cello)
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
' Psalm-tone into Song,' by Father Bernard McElligott , o.s.B. Second of four talks by Father McElligott and Alec Robertson on the aesthetics of Gregorian Chant
(Winter Series)
Moura Lympany (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Talk by W.H.G. Armytage
'Tom Brown's Schooldays' immortalised Rugby and a great headmaster, and created a prototype of the English public schoolboy. What is not so well known is that its author, Tom Hughes , worked hard to establish a settlement for public schoolboys at Rugby, Tennessee. W.H.G. Armytage tells the story of that other Rugby across the Atlantic
Part 2
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Selections that have a relation to scientific development
Readers: Glyn Rowland Hill
Anthony Jacobs and Timothy Bateson
Production by James McFarlan
This programme illustrates last Monday's talk by J. Isaacs
Quintet for piano and strings played by the Quintetto Chigiano
An appreciation of Proust by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Mass: Assumpta est Maria sung by the BBC Midland Chorus
Conductor, James Denny