General editor, Gerald Abraham
4-Early English Music to Dunstable
Introduced by Alec Robertson
(s)
A weekly series of programmes, the first twelve of which are a résumé of those broadcast last year
A selection of the verse of J. K. Stephen (1859-92)
Arranged by Patric Dickinson
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
Produced by James McFarlan
Settings of poems by Goethe
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Bruce Boyce (baritone)
Frederick Stone (piano)
On the anniversary of the birth of - A. E. Housman , his brother Laurence Housman discusses the early poems written in the years 1873-98 and reads selections from them
Emelie Hooke (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Guest conductor,
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Part 1
(conducted by Sir Adrian Boult )
Alan Pryce Jones reviews a new life of the Prince Consort by Roger Fulford
Part 2
(conducted by Heitor Villa-Lobos )
by Mabel C. Warburton , who has spent nearly thirty years in educational and missionary work in the Middle East
She recently visited the Arab refugee camps in Transjordan and reported on them to the organisations that have now taken over the administration of relief work in Palestine and the surrounding Arab countries
Antonio Saffi (harpsichord)
Last of four readings from the works of Sydney Smith*
Read by Raf de la Torre
Sonata in A, for violin and piano played by Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin on gramophone records