Sonata In C played by Else Marie Bruun (violin)
JuHus Koppel (violin) Alberto Medici (cello)
Mogens Woldike (harpsichord) on gramophone records
Translated into English verse from the medieval Cornish and adapted for broadcasting, with additional passages in verse, by Terence Tiller
Cost in order of speaking:
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Orchestra conducted by Cyril Gelt with the BBC Singers
Produced by Terence Tiller
Opera in three acts
Libretto by J. B. Priestley
Music by Arthur Bliss
Cast in order of singing: Guests, servants, dancers
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conducted by Peter Gellhorn
Producer, Peter Brook
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The action takes place In or near Berrasson. a small town in the South of France. Midsummer 1836
Act 1
A ground-floor room in the ' Golden Duck.' Morning of Midsummer Day
Asia's Indispensable Contribution by Joseph Needham , F.R.S.
In the second of two talks based on a lecture given to UNESCO at Beirut towards the end of last year, Dr. Needham speaks about developments in technology.
Act 2
A large courtyard outside Lavatte's house. Night
by Geoffrey Taylor
Geoffrey Taylor talks about the invention of the lawn-mower in 1831, and its effect on the nineteenth-century's attitude to green grass kept finely shorn.'
Act 3
The back of Lavatte's house. The small hours of the next morning
The Liberal Intellectual
Talk by A. J. P. Taylor
In reference to Harold Nicolson 's book, A. J. P. Taylor considers Constant as the first of the Liberal Intellectuals and discusses the part played by the ' free intelligence ’in modern society.
Evely Rothwell (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Archie Camden (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Denis Matthews (piano)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
William Pleeth (cello) Margaret Good (piano)
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