Trio in E flat, Op. 100 played by the 'Robert Masters Piano Trio:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (cello)
Kinloch Anderson (piano)
Patric Dickinson introduces a selection from his poetry
Readers:
Jill Balcon , Robert Sewell
Edith Sitwell and Constant Lambert (speakers)
Mary Peppin and Geraldine Peppin (two pianos)
James Gibb (piano)
BBC Men's Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
A section of the Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Leighton Lucas
Part 1
Talk by Raymond Williams
Ibsen's plays ' Brand ' and ' Peer Gynt,' neither of them written for the theatre, present a kind of dramatic poem very different from the generally accepted idea of Ibsen as a realist and playwright of social issues. The social plays, in fact, are only a part of Ibsen's work-according to Raymond Williams , perhaps not the most important part. The last plays are as much poetic drama as Brand ' and ' Peer Gynt,' and the same recurrent themes run through the whole of Ibsen's work from ' Brand ' onwards.
(Concert continued)
Introductory talk by Edith Sitwell to
His Historical Significance by F. C. Copleston, s.Jv Professor of the History of Philosophy at Heythrop College
Last of four talks
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Fetes galantes (Paul Verlaine ):
En sourdine Fantoches
Clair de lune
Mandoline (Paul Verlaine )
Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison (Claude Debussy)
Ariettes oubliees (Paul Verlaine ):
II pleure dans mon coeur
Paysages belges-chevaux de bois
Trois Ballades de Francois Villon :
Ballade a s'amye
Ballade que Villon fait a la requeste de sa mere pour prier Nostre-Dame
Ballade des femmes de Paris
Greek Easter 1940
—Greek Easter 1941 by Olivia Manning
Produced by R. D. Smith
In August 1939 Olivia Manning married R. D. Smith (the producer of this programme). Immediately afterwards he was ordered to the Balkans, and she went with him. At Easter 1940 they returned to Rumania from leave in Athens to find the Balkan world collapsing around them. In October, after some weeks of German domination of Rumania, they made their way into Greece, just before the Italian declaration of war. On Good Friday 1941 they escaped from the blown-up port of Piraeus, three days ahead of the German advance. In tonight's programme Olivia Manning recalls these events.
Antonio Brosa (violin)
Eric Hope (piano)
Netherland Melodies , Nos. 1, 11, 8, for piano
Sonata for solo violin
Variations on an original theme, for piano
Talk by Wilfred Thesis er
During his recent expedition u; man Wilfred Thesiger spent some time hawking with Arab sheikhs. His ta'k gives a picture of this traditional desert sport.
Concerto Grosso in F. Op. G No. 2 played by the Boyd Neel string Orchestra with Louis Willoughby (violin)
David Martin (violin) Peter Beavan (cello)
Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord) on gramophone records
