Nineteenth Century
Pamela Stirling and Michel St. Denis read poems by Victor Hugo , Alfred de Musset , Charles Baudelaire , and Paul Verlaine
Third of four programmes
Sophie Wyss (soprano) Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Leighton Lucas Orchestra
(Leader, Ronald Good )
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
The Rev. W. A. Whitehouse , Reader in Divinity at the University of Durham reviews the recently published book by Monsignor R. A. Knox , entitled ' Enthusiasm '
This study of a group of religious movements of the period 1650-1750 also examines some of its antecedents and consequences and considers the real meaning of the word ' enthusiasm ' which was used by eighteenth-century critics to discredit the movement.
An opera in one act with a prologue
Libretto by Alan Collard and John B. Gordon
Music by Arthur Benjamin
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor. Stanford Robinson
Producer, Dennis Arundell
The scene is in the living room of the poet which opens directly on to a street in London
Time: fifteenth century
by William Shakespeare
Adapted for radio by Frank Hauser
[Starring] Sebastian Shaw
(The recorded broadcast of October 22)
(Sebastian Shaw is appearing in 'His Excellency' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London; Robert Urquhart, in 'The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
Trio-Movement in G, Op. 119b played by Gilbert Jespersen (flute)
Erling Bloch (violin)
Lund -Christiansen (piano) on gramophone records
Part 2
played by Harold Craxton (piano)
Some reflections on America and England
The first of two talks by Christopher Salmon