Piano Sonata in B minor played by Backhaus
(.) Last of three programmes of piano music by Liszt
An Earnest Enquiry into the Life, Times, and Works of Mrs. Hemans by Terence Tiller
An opera in three acts and ten scenes
Libretto (after Sheridan) and music by Roberto Gerhard
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville)
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe)
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser
(Denis Dowling broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Edith Coates and Parry Jones broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
(Previously, broadcast on April 13)
The action takes place in Seville towards the end of the 18th century
Act 1
Scene 1: The street before Don Jerome 's house
Scene 2: A street corner
Scene 3: In Don Jerome 's house
Scene 4: An unfrequented square
Scene 5: The promenade by the Guadalquivir
The Encyclopaedia of 1751 Talk by Alfred Cobban , Ph.D.
Dr. Cobban takes Diderot's Encyclopaedia as the first manifesto of the scientific, historical, and utilitarian thought of modern times and examines its validity in the light of contemporary thinking.
Act 2
Scene 1: A room in Don Jerome 's house
Scene 2: A small room at Don Isaac 's lodgings
Scene 3: Another room at Don Isaac 's lodgings
Talk by Seton Lloyd O.B.E., F.S.A. ,
Director of the British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara
An account of a tour of some of the principal sites of Greek civilisation in Asia Minor: Ephesus, Pergamum, Miletus. and Priene
Scene 1: The locutory at the Priory Scene 2: The state room at
Don Jerome 's housi
Edward Hyams tells a sttory about the triumph of ridicule
To be repeated tomorrow
Quintet in C (K.515) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Ni sel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viols) Martin Lovett (cello)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
A talk by Terence Prittie , Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany
