Max Beloff discusses recent trends in English and French historiography
Quartet No. 2 played by Julien Brun (flute)
Henri Druarte (clarinet)
Lucien Thevet (horn)
Maurice Allard (bassoon) on gramophone records
by the Rev. A. M. Jones
Melody and Harmony
This is the first of three talks by the Warden of St. Mark's College, Mapanza, who has for many years studied African music and analysed its rhythms. The talk is illustrated with recordings made hy the speaker and by the African Music Society.
A masque byWilliam Congreve
Music by Arne
Chaucer as Astronomer
Talk by Eva Taylor ,
Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of London
Readings by Martin Starkie
Last of three talks
or The Sailor's Return'
A dramatic pastoral
Words by Isaac Bickerstaffe
Music byArne
(Both operas previously broadcast on Monday)
Talk by Geoffrey Sharp on the Mozart festival at Glyndebourne
by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell
Including How Not To, How You Ought To, and How You Won't
Demonstrated by Joyce Grenfell. Gladys Young Betty Hardy . Carleton Hobbs
Geoffrey Wincott , Roy Plomley and Deryck Guyler
Production by Stephen Potter
by Bartok
Nos. 112, 113. 117. 126. 128. 87, and 148-153 played by Gordon Watson (piano)
Second of four programmes devised by William Glock
'The land was ours before we were the land's'
Second of two talks by Perry Miller , Professor of American Literature at Harvard University
Trio in E flat, Op. 100 played by the Rubbra-Grueniberg-Pleeth Trio:
Erich Gruemberg (violin)
William Pleefch (cello)
Edmund Rubbra (piano)