by Sir Grimwood Mears
One evening last September Sir Grimwood Mears recorded some recollections of his arduous apprenticeship to the dry fly from a favourite spot on the river bank at Winchester, where he first began to fish seventy years ago.
Piano Sonata in E minor, No. 34 Piano Sonata in B minor, No. 32 played by Nina Milkina
Third of six recitals of Haydn's piano sonatas. (The sonatas are numbered according to the Breitkopt collected edition of Haydn's works)
A reading by John Betjeman
In this programme John Betjeman reads and comments on the poems ' The Scholar Gipsy ' by Matthew Arnold and ' The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire ' by Jean Ingelow.
Production by W. R. Rodgers
Elsie Suddaiby (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
John Kentish (tenor)
Philip Hattey (bass-baritone)
Continuo: Geraint Jones (harpsichord and organ) and Raymond Clark (cello)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Philharmonia String Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian)
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Vater unser
0 quam tu pulchra es Selig sind die Toten
Frohlocket mit Handen
Unser Keiner lebet ihm selber
Mein Sohn. warum hast du uns das gethan
Programme arranged by Anthony Lewis
(John Kentish broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
Second of six programmes of music by Schutz
Talk by E. G. R. Taylor , Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of London
If present trends continue, world population will increase by 800 million before the end of the century; and most of these people will live in towns and cities. Professor Eva Taylor believes that the increasing urbanisation of society is a natural consequence of the demand for higher living standards.
Symphony No. 7, in E played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. David Wise)
Conductor, Eduard van Beinum
Another performance, from the Royal Albert Hall, London: Thursday at 8.20
A play by Mary Frances Flack
Revised for broadcasting by the author
Scene: Tel-Aviv during the year 1947
Production by E.J. King Bull
(Dorothy Gordon is appearing in ' Black ChiDon. at the Westminster Theatre, London: Ralph Michael , in ' The Heiress ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London; Theodore Bikel , in ' A Streetcar Named Desire at the Aldwych Theatre, London)
Martin Boddey (tenor) Hervey Alan (baritone) with Clifton Helliwell (piano)
The Countryman The Fox
Autumn Twilight
Chopcherry: Along the Stream
The Jolly Shepherd; My Own Country Consider: Spring
Late Summer; The Toper's Song
Cattle
Talk by W. A. Stewart , o.b.e.
