played by Alfred Kitchin
,by C. M. Woodhouse
The Soviet Government has recently denounced Dostoevsky as an enemy of the Revolution, although he was previously officially honoured as a literary hero. C. M. Woodhouse suggests that the clue to this change of attitude may be found in ' The Possessed,' the novel in which Dostoevsky, nearly a hundred years ago, forecast the techniques of the twentieth-century Revolution.
Settings of poems by Goethe
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Julius Patzak (tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Epiphanias; Wer nie sein Brod mit
Thränen ass; Prometheus
St. Nepomuk's Vorabend; Der Rattenfanger; Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte: Trunken müsen wir alle sein: Ganymed
(Continued in next column)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt;
Blumengruss; Gleich und gleich; Anakreons Grab; Die Sprode; Die Bekehrte; Frühling libers Jahr
Before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
The Theology of the Old Testament by the Rev. N. W. Porteous
Dr. Porteous is Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages in the University of Edinburgh. In this talk he discusses the contemporary debate about the nature and relevance of a theology of the Old Testament.
Last of a series of five talks
by Francis Watson with Homi Sethna , Surath B. Shah Jaron Yaltan , Brij Mohan Tootan
Julian Esmond , Ben Williams and Rosamund Barnes
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
(Continued in next column)
Early in 1939 the small Indian state of Aundh adopted a new constitution based on the principles of village democracy advocated by Gandhi.Francis Watson was there to help, and in this programme he recalls what 1939 meant to him not only in the midst of this experiment but in his wanderings far and wide in India while the war clouds were gathering in the West.
Robert Casadesus (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Part l
Brinley Thomas , Professor of Economics and Political Science, University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, explains the effect of the decision to devalue
(Concert continued)
First of a series of concerts
In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Chopin (October 17, 1849) Arthur Hedley gives a talk on Chopin the man, based on the latest researches
First of three talks
played by the Feltkamp-Lentz-van Wering Trio:
Johan Feltkamp (flute)
Piet Lentz (viola da gamba)
Janny van Wering (harpsichord)
