Passages from the Journal and letters of Katherine Mansfield
Chosen and introduced by Morchard Bishop
Reader, Joan Hart
Sonata in C, Op. 140
(Grand Duo) played by Denis Matthews and Howard Ferguson (piano duet)
A dramatic myth in verse
Written and produced by Terence Tiller
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Trevor Harvey with a section of the Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Douglas Robinson ) with Donald Gray. Anthony Jacobs
David Peel , Richard Williams
Music from the Comical History of ' Don Quixote '
Cardenio's song: Let the dreadful engines
Trio (Melissa, Urganda. Montesmo):
With this sacred charming wand
Dialogue for a clown and his wife:
Since timies are so bad
Song with trumpet obbligato: Genius of England
Altisidora's song: From rosy bowers
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Eric Sterling (tenor)
Donald Munro (baritone)
William Parsons (baritone)
Harold Jackson (trumpet)
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Continuo:
Bernard Richards (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) Gerain't Jones (harpsichord)
Directed by Anthony Lewis
A monthy review of current architectural questions
The Royal Festival Hall by J. L. Martin , Ph.D., F.R.I.B.A.
The building of the Royal Festival Hall is well under way on the South Bank of the Thames. The speaker, who is Deputy Architect to the London County Council, gives an account of the problems of design and construction presented to the architects and other associated experts.
The masque in ‘Timon of Athens’
Margaret Field-Hyd « (soprano)
Margaret Ritohie (soprano)
Eric Starling (tenor)
William Parsons (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Edward Walker (flute) Ronald Gillham (flute) Donald Bridger (oboe)
Roger Lord (oboe)
Harold Jackson (trumpet)
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola)
Continuo: Bernard Richards (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) and Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
Programme arranged and directed by Anthony Lewia
between Joyce Cary and Lord David Cecil
In the course of this informal conversation Joyce Cary describes his way of writing novels and the beliefs that lie behind them.
Quintet in C, Op. 29 played by the Ernest Element Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Sylvia Cleaver (violin)
Dorothy Hemming (viola)
Norman Jones (cello)
Herbert Downes (viola)
Chaucer as Astronomer by Eva Taylor Emeritus Professor ot Geography, University of London
Readings by Martin Starkle
Last of three talks
Petrushka played by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records