Written by Dorothy Baker
Produced by R. D. Smith
Dorothy Baker recalls her childhood and youth in a town of the industrial
Midlands. She describes Black Country characters and scenes, and the life of the street in which she lived
Scythian Suite : Ala and LoUy played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Desire Defauw on gramophone records
Talk by Maurice Schumann
Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 played by the Barylli String Quartet
John Lehmann speaks about their problems and how they compare with those of our own writers
played by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Directed by Constant Lambert
by August Strindberg
Adapted by Peter Watts from the translation by Elizabeth Sprigge
Incidental music composed by Berthold Goldschmidt played by the BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell
Organ played by Maurice Vinden
Produced by Peter Watts
William Herbert (tenor)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Philharmonic String Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
James Whitehead (cello)
(The items for string trio are recorded)
A Great Nineteenth-Century Gardener Geoffrey Taylor holds that William Robinson had as much influence on the cultural destinies of England as many a statesman and many a poet. Robinson produced two masterpieces— his book 'The English Flower Garden' and his own garden at Gravetye
