Conductor, Charles Groves
A talk about tears by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Walter Ludwig (tenor)
Boris Christoff (bass)
The Festival Choir
(Chorus-Master, Albert Janny )
The Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler
Parti
The Revived Interest in the Old Testament by the Rev. Professor C. R. North , D.Lit.
Dr. North is President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and Professor of Hebrew in the University College of North Wales. In this talk, the first of five to be given by members of the Society for Old Testament Study, he deals with the varying fortunes of the Old Testament in the course of history, and the more positive understanding that has been made possible by recent ttudy.
Part 2
(1906-17)
First of three talks by Hesketh Pearson
Hesketh Pearson went on the stage In 1911 and came to know personally several of the actor-managers whose reign in the theatre was drawing to an end, though no one recognised this at the time. The first talk deals with H. B. Irving and Lewis Waller , and in particular with their productions of Shakespeare.
Part 3
New production of an extended series of adaptations from Geoffrey Chaucer 's poem in fourteen weekly instalments
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
14-The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Production by Stephen Potter
A cycle of poems by Heine
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Im wunderschonen Monat Mal Aus meinen Tränen
Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die
Sonne
Wenn ich In deine Augen seh' Ich will meine Seele tauchen
Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome loh grolle nicht
Und wtlssten's die Blumen, die klelnen
Das ist eln Floten und Geigen
(Continued in next column)
Hðr' ich das Lledchen kllngen
Ein JUngling liebt ein Madcheo Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen Ich hab' im Traum gewelnet
Allnachtlich im Traume seh' ich dich Aus alten MSrchen
Die alten bosen Lieder
Law in the Middle Ages
Talk by T. F. T. Plucknett, LL.B., F.B.A., Professor of Legal History in the University of London
String Quartet in G minor played by the Quatuor Haydn:
Georges Maes (violin) Louis Hertogh (violin)
Louis Logie (viola)
René Pousseele (cello)