sung by Suzanne Danco (soprano) with Frederick Stone (piano)
Wir wandelten
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Das Madchen spricht
Schön war, das ich dir weihte Vergebliches Standchen Von ewiger Liebe Standchen
Die Mainacht Meine Liebe ist grün
Second of six discussions between three Members of Parliament, to be broadcast weekly
Speakers:
Sir Arthur Salter (Chairman) (Independent. Oxford University)
Quintin Hogg
(Conservative. Oxford City)
Austen Albu
(Labour. Edmonton)
This week the speakers continue their survey of Britain's economic difficulties.
General editor, Gerald Abraham
50-Oratorio in England
Editor, J. A. Westrup
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
George Armitage (tenor)
Norman Walker (bass)
BBC Chorus
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Ralph Downes (organ)
A section of the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Talk by Lt.-General Richard Gale, C.B., D.s.O.
The speaker describes and comments on the recent manoeuvres in Germany in which British troops and R.A.F. units were exercised with units of other nations.
Lieutenant-General Gale is Director of Military Training at the War Office. During the war he commanded the 6th Airborne Division and was Deputy Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
Part 1
by E. Martin Browne
Part 2
4 — ' Bus to Florence '
C. Day Lewis reads the fourth part of his poem on Italy. It describes a day spent in journeying in a bus between Rome and Florence, through the Campagna, and past villages
' With place-names sleek as oil-
Montepulciano, Montalcino, Murlo, Castiglione.'
The Quatuor Haydn:
Georges Maes (violin) Louis Hertogh (violin)
Louis Logie (viola)
Rene Pousseele (cello)
Talk by Richard Curle
The speaker recalls an expedition to the Norfolk Sailings with W. H. Hudson at the time when Hudson was writing his book ' Adventures Among Birds.'