Piano Sonata in B minor played by Cyril Preedy
by Sean O'Faolain
with Bernard Braden, Macdonald Parke, Janet Morrison, David Kossoff, Harry Hutchinson, Patience Collier
Sean O'Faolain recalls twelve months in the United States as they appeared to a young Irishman, a disillusioned romance - New York at the beginning of the slump. a student's life at Harvard, a Baptist settlement in the Appalachians, an apple orchard in New Mexico. But after he had toured America in a Model T Ford - one of the old Flying Bedsteads - the truth of Henry James' words was borne in upon him: 'The flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep'; and soon he found himself again in his native Ireland.
Twelfth of a series of recorded reports on the Soviet point of view as expressed in the Soviet Press and broadcasts directed to listeners in the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC's foreign news department
("The Magic Flute')
Opera in two acts by Mozart
Libretto by Schickaneder
(The singers' names to be announced)
Characters:
The Queen of the Night Pamina, her daughter
Attendants of the Queen of the Night Tamlno, an Egyptian prince Papageno. a birdcatcher
Papagena Sarastro , High Priest of the Temple Monostatos, Sarastro's servant Genii of the Temple
The Speaker of the Temple
Priests, armed men. slaves Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor. Wilhelm Furtwangler
The action takes place in the neighbourhood of a temple of Isis in Egypt
Act
Interval
Act 2
Talk by Professor Gordon N. Ray of the University of Illinois
' It is the unwritten part of books that would be the most interesting,' Thackeray once wrote. The unwritten part of hit own novels ' Esmond ' and ' Pendennis ' is the story of how his own life is reflected in their pages. Professor Ray presents this story with evidence drawn from unpublished documents.
Professor Ray's edition of the letters and private papers of Thackeray substantially increased our knowledge of the novelist. He it now researching in this country in preparation for a biography of Thackeray.
by Laurence Housman
Adapted for broadcasting by Peggy Wells
Produced by Peter Watts
Fantasia No. 9 In four parts (Purcell) Minuet and Trio in D minor. Op. 103
(Haydn)
Night (Bloch) on gramophone records
