First of two talks by Iris Murdoch
The speaker examines the work of the existentialists Sartre, Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir to discover what lies behind this rapprochement of literature and philosophy.
The Existentialist Hero': Thursday
of tfie Fifteenth Century
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Players
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
The programme includes music by Dufay, Grenon, Binchois, Mor.ton. Ghizegihem, Busnods, Lantins. and Ockeghem
In this series of four talks Professor J. E. Meade , of the London School of Economics, considers some of the economic implications of a possible international Union
3—International Institutions
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Edlward Selwyn , Jesse Pantling
(oboes)
Ralph Clarke , Herbert New
(clarinets)
Douglas Moore , Harry Watson
(horns)
Richard Newton , James Richens
(bassoons)
Denis Matthews (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1: Mozart
Overture: II Seraglio
7.38 app. Piano Concerto No. 27, in B flat (K.595)
8.11 app. Serenade for eight wind instruments (K.388)
8.32 app. Recit. and Aria: Non mi diir (Don Giovanni )
8.41 app. Symphony No. 38, in D
(K.504) (Prague)
Talk by Stephen Bone
Almost all writers indulging in Utopian speculations have given careful consideration to the type of clothing the ideal citizen should wear. Stephen Bone compares the sartorial ideals of writers from Sir Thomas More to the present day.
Part 2: Delius
Nocturne: Paris
9.51 app. Dance Rhapsody No. 1
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
An entertainment devised by Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud
Imagine, says Jean-Louis Barrault , 'that you have invited a troupe of actors to come to your home to entertain you.' The stage is set as a drawing-room. The actors, Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud , give a recital of French poetry from Ronsard to Prévert : Pierre Bertin ends with light songs at the piano.
Madeleine Renaud :
Ronsard: L'amour mouille
Jean-Louis Barrault :
Baudelaire: La musique: L'invitation au voyage; Le jet d'eau -
Madeleine Renaud :
Verlaine: La chanson des ingenues;
Colombine; Streets
Paul Claudel : La Vierge a midi
Jean-Louis Barrault :
Paul Eluard : Liberte
Madeleine Renaud :
Jacques Prevert : Chansons:
Je suis comme je suis: Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau; La page d’écriture
(Continued in next column)
Pierre Bertin :
Chansons de Paris (1860-70):
Le rondo de Musette ( ‛Scenes de Boheme ' de Murger); La tour St. Jacques
See page 4
Quartet in D minor
(Voces intimiae) played by the Budapest String Quartet on gramophone records
See also Friday at 7.0 and Saturday at 9.55
The Cosmological Order Described
Talk by Eva G. R. Taylor ,
Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of London
(The recorded broadcast of July 2)
First of three talks
Dorothy L. Sayers on Dante: tomorrow
Suite, Op. 14
Suite. Out of Doors
With Drums and Pipes; Barcarolle: Musettes; Musiques nocturnes: The Chase played by Georg Vasarhelyi (piano)
