A story by Enid Williams
Read by Susan Richards
Piano Sonata in A, Op. posth. played by Grete Scherzer
A personal sketch by Captain Henry Harrison, O.B.E., M.C.
Captain Harrison was intimately acquainted with Parnell more than sixty years ago and was concerned in the extraordinary events attending Parnell's political and personal history. Captain Harrison's book Parnell Vindicated is described in the Oxford History of England as 'the main final source of elucidation' of the story of the Parnell-O Shea liaison.
(BBC recording)
A play in four acts by Hermann Sudermann
Translated by Ashley Dukes
Revised and adapted for broadcasting by A. L . Lloyd
Production by Raymond Raikes
Music specially composed by Leon Young played by the BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, George Deason )
Conductor. Paul Fenoulhet
The action of the play takes place In the East Prussian countryside some time in the 1880s
Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Cecil James (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
London Mozart Players
(Leader. Max Sal peter )
Conductor, Harry Blech
Last of six concerts in which the six symphonies recently published by the Haydn Society have been played
Two talks by Jean Seznec
2-Flaubert
In these talks the speaker, who is Professor of French Literature in the Untversity of Oxford, considers two French writers in the light of recently discovered manuscript material.
A selection of his satirical verse made and introduced by Frank Hauser
Readers :
Rachel Gurney. Michael Flanders
Stuart Humphry Ward
(counter-tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor)
An Instrumental Ensemble
Amor c'al tuo suggetto
De'! dimmi tu che' sse' coat fregiato Ama donna chi tt'ama
Echo la primavera Gja ebbi Itbertate
Adiu. adiu dous dame jolye Gentil aspetto
Programme arranged and Introduced by Thurston Dart
Peter de Mendelssohn talks &bout the memoirs of Baron Weizsacker. State
Secretary in the German Foreign Office under Ribbentrop