A dramatisation from the 'Satyricon' of Petronius
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Music by Alan Rawsthorne
General editor, Gerald Abraham
64-Solo Song in the late eighteenth century
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Esther Salaman (mezzo-soprano)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Josephine Lee (piano;
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Including music by Rousseau, C. P. E. Bach Reichardt, Zelter, Zumsteeg, Haydn, and Mozart
A series offivelectures on the New Cosmology by Fred Hoyle , Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College
4-The Exploding Sequence and the Origin of the Earth and Planets
Paul Tortelier (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Igor Markevitch
Part 1
Talk by Isobel Macdonald
Between 1848 and 1862 a number of novels in verse form were published. They include dough's The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich and Amours de Voyage. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's Aurora Leigh , and Tennyson's Maud
Part 2
Pezzo Concertante for two solo violins. solo viola, and orchestra (Solo violins: Paul Beard, Thomas Peatfield Solo viola: Harry Danks) (first broadcast performance in England) - Ghedini
9.44 app. Pictures from an Exhibition - Mussorgsky, arch. Ravel
Nikolaus Pevsner , Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University, talks about a book by a northern French architect of the thirteenth century
Personal information on the lives, methods, and tastes of medieval architects is so rare that the survival of Villard de Honnecourt 's book is a piece of good fortune. It is written and illustrated for the benefit of his apprentices and assistants, and contains an amazing amount of miscellaneous matters from timber construction and rules of proportion to sculpture, mechanical gadgets, and even quack prescriptions.
Quartet in F, Op. 59 No. 1 played by the Hungarian String Quartet
Seventhof a series of recitals
Talk by John Guest
Font-Romeu is a pilgrim resort in the Eastern Pyrenees. John Guest decided to go there when he consulted his out-of-date Baedeker and read that ' cheap accommodation could be obtained from the hermit.' In this talk he describes the Font-Romeu he actually found.
Herbert Janssen (baritone)
Biterolf; Denk' es, 0 Seele; Bei einer
Trauung: with Michael Raucheisen (piano)
Komm, 0 Tod: with Gerald Moore
(piano)
Cophtisches Lied 2: with Coenraad van Bos (piano) on gramophone records