H. C. Bainibridge talks about the attitude of Edwardians to the giving and receiving of presents The speaker, who was at one time personal representative of Carl Faberge in London, examines the art and the personality of Faberge and describes some of the royal gifts he was commissioned to create.
followed by an interlude at 6,20
The Renaissance Singers
Conductor, Michael Howard
Douglas Moore (horn)
William Teskey (trombone)
Jack Pinches (trombone)
Ralph Downes (organ)
From St. Albans Abbey
First of five programmes of music of the fifteenth century
Ta.lk by Victor Purcell , Ph.D.
The speaker is Lecturer in Far Eastern History in the University of Cambridge and author of The Chinese in South-East
Asia which has been published recently.
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Ga're-th Morris (flute)
George Malcolm
(harpsichord and piano)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Georges Enesco
From the Central Hall. Westminster
Part 1
Talk by J. A. W. Bennett , D.Phil.
The speaker is Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford. In this talk he considers two views of Chaucer as presented in Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales by W. W. Lawrence and Chaucer the Maker by John Speirs.
Part 2
A play by Hermann Sudermann
Translated by Ashley Dukes
Revised and adapted for broadcasting by A. L. Lloyd
Production by Raymond Raikes
Music composed by Leon Young played by the BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Scene: The East Prussian country-side some time in the 1880s
Quintet in G, Op. Ill played by Amadeus String Quartet
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
World Revolution or Russaan Imperialism?
P. A. Reynolds , Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, talks about developments in the ideological basia of Soviet foreign policy
