Ten songs for tenor and piano
Words by Thomas Hardy
Music by Gerald Finzi
A Young Man's Exhortation Ditty
Budmouth Dears
Her Temple
The Comet at Yeil'ham
Shortening Days The Sigh
Former Beauties
Transformations
The Dance Continued (Regret not me) sung by William Herbert (tenor) with Ernest Lush (piano)
Talk by E. A. Schelpe
Last summer E. A. Schelpe led an expedition of undergraduates from Oxford University to survey a part of Mount Kenya that had never been mapped and to study its flora and fauna. Among a number of specimens they brought back was a horned chameleon, which is not known to exist anywhere else in the world.
Piano Sonata in A, Op. posth. played by Louis Kentner
Eleventh of a series of recitals of piano music by Schubert
Next programme; January 8
Written and spoken by W. P. Rilla
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Jean Anderson. Peter Claughton
Alastair Duncan. Walter Gotell Sheila Latimer , Leonard Sachs and Bryan Spielman
' The End of a Childhood ' describes a year in a boy's life, spent partly in Berlin during the rise of Nazi power, partly in Vienna among his mother's insouciant relatives.
Ena Mitchell (soprano)
Joan Alexander (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Henry Cummings (baritone)
Huddersfield
Glee and Madrigal Society
Blackpool Girls' Choir
BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
From the Town Hall. Manchester
Part 1
Talk by Honor Tracy, who has recently returned from Spain
Part 2
Magnificat
Henry Reed introduces a selection from his poetry
Reader, Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Production by Frank Hauser
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
William PIeeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
2-Julius Caesar
Talk by Michael Holroyd
The many sides of Caesar's genius profoundly influenced the course of Western Europe. There can be no one portrait of such a man: the speaker shows him as he appeared to his contemporaries-aristocrat, radical, general, historian, reformer, and dictator-and places him ' against the great perspective of the centuries.'