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Written by Colin Wills
Produced by Christopher Sykes
The artist'! relations to his raw material are often misunderstood, and the model is rarely pleased with the picture even if it turns out to be a masterpiece. Colin Wills gives impressions of reactions in West Africa to Graham Greene 's novel of Colonial life, The Heart of the Mailer.
(The recorded broadcast of July 25)

Contributors

Written By:
Colin Wills
Produced By:
Christopher Sykes
Unknown:
Colin Wills
Unknown:
Graham Greene

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Dieulafoy and Briffault (after Voltaire)
Music by Spontini
Chorus and Orchestra of the Florence 'Musical May' Festival (Chorus-Master, Andrea Morosind)
Conductor, Tullio Serafin
Scene: Ephesus, fifteen years after the death of Alexander the Great, towards the end of the fourth century B.C.
Act 1
The entrance to the Tempie of Diana Later, Inside the Temple

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Andrea Morosind
Conductor:
Tullio Serafin
Olympia daughter of Statyra:
Renata Tebaldi
Statyra, widow of Alexander:
Elena Nicolai
Cassander, King of Macedon:
Giorgio Kokolios
Antigonus, King of Syria:
Giacomo Vaghi
The High Priest:
Mario Petri
Hernias:
Mario Frosini
Priest:
Camillo Righini
Priestess:
Silvana Mari
Priestess:
Lucia Daraieli
Priestess:
Mary Gasj

Wordsworth and Coleridge by D. G. James ,
Winterstoke Professor of English in the University of Bristol
The speaker challenges Matthew Arnold 's view that the Romantics did not establish an order of ideas in which their creativeness might flourish, and claims that Wordsworth and Coleridge came to possess a profounder understanding of poetry in relation to the other main human activities than any English poets before them or since.
Eighth of a series of talks

Contributors

Unknown:
D. G. James
Unknown:
Matthew Arnold

The London Consort of Viols: Harry Danks (treble viol), Stanley Wootton (treble viol), Robert Donington (treble viol), Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol), Sylvia Putterill (tenor viol), Henry Revell (bass viol)

Fantasy No. 1 a 6
In Nomine No. 3 a 5
Fantasy a 4
In Nomine No. 5 a 5
Pavan and Galliard a 6
Fantasy No. 2 a 6

(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 16)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Danks
Unknown:
Stanley Wootton
Unknown:
Robert Donington
Tenor:
Jacqueline Townshend
Tenor:
Sylvia Putterill
Bass:
Henry Revell

Third Programme

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