by Alys Russell
Alys Russell describes how she called on Lord Tennyson at Farringford when she came to see him in 1885 with a letter of introduction from Walt Whitman.
(The recorded broadcast of July 8)
Sonata in E flat, Op. 18 played by Ginette Neveu (violin) and Gustaf Beck (piano) on gramophone records
A talk on Burren and its flowers by Professor D. A. Webb of Trinity College, Dublin
Burren is an area of limestone pavements on the Atlantic coast of Co. Clare, where plants more proper to Greenland or Lapland or high mountains grow down by the edge of [he sea beside plants more at home hundreds of miles away around the Mediterranean. Professor Webb describes this natural rock-garden and discusses how it came into being.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader.Paul Beard )
Conducted by Issay Dobrowen
by Harold Orton , Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature, University of Leeds
For the past few years the speaker has been working on a new survey of dialectal English. This evening he discusses the work already done on the preparation of a linguistic atlas, and his methods in establishing the characteristic forms of the English language in pronunciation and vocabulary.
by Christopher Sykes
From a journey to Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles, and around the Provençal countryside Christopher Sykes has recorded some impressions of the renaissance of French life that has been going forward, little noticed in England, since 1945. The programme gives some of his ideas regarding Southern French character and its place in our history.
Produced by Christopher Sykes
Kathleen Ferrier 'contralto)
The Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Herbert Bardgett )
Halle Orchestra
(Leader. Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
From the Town Hall, Leeds
Rhapsody for contralto, male voice choir, and orchestra - Brahms
9.15 app. Symphony No. 5. in E flat - Sibelius
Talk by Thunston Dart
The Well-tempered Clavier
Six Preludes and Fugues (Book 1)
No. 7. in E flat; No. 8, in E flat minor; No. 9, in E; No. 10, in E minor; No. 11. in F; No. 12. in F minor played by Iso Elinson (piano)
Second of four programmes
A selection from his poems
Quintet in C minor, Op. 115 played by the Quintette de I'Atelier
