by Arnold Richardson
From Westminster Catihedmal
A series of ten readings from the English translation by René Hague.
Charles defeats the armies of the pagans and enters Saragossa.
Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
Nonman Fawcett (bassoon)
Christopher Davenport
(tromibone)
Desmond Duprg (tenor viol)
From the Chapel of St. Edmund's College. Old Hall, Ware, Herts Third of a series of programmes of 15th-century music. To be repeated on May 16. Next programme : May 23
Owen Holloway talks about the recently published translation of Dostoevsky's journal and the light it throws on the nature of his novels
Moiseiwitsch (piano)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
William Herbert (tenor) Norman Walker (bass)
BBC Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
by Arthur Ransome
The salmon has strange habits: it does not eat when it comes up the rivers, but it may take a fly. Mr. Ransome here expresses a theory revealed to him during a bout of influenza. He has been testing the theory —and it works.
Part 2
From the Royal Festival Ha'U. London
(Norman Walker broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Harold Rutland writes in this issue
Talk by 3M. H. A. Newman , F.R.S.,
Professor of Mathematics in the University of Manchester
A series of talks on the history and theory of thinking mechanisms
Next talk: May 15
Trio No. 2, in C
Op. 87 played by the Rubbra-Gruenberg-Pleeth Trio:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
William Pleeth (cello)
Edmund Rubbra (piano)
Six lectures by E. H. Carr
Some reflections on the social and political changes of the last century and a half
1—The Historical Approach
(The recorded broadcast of May 2)
Next lecture: tomorrow
Rene Soames (tenor)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
The Passionate Shepherd (Marlowe) After two years (Richard Aldington ) Piggesnie (anon., sixteenth century) I held love's head (Robert Herrick) Two Song& (Arthur Syanons)
The Contented Lover (James Mabbe ) Pretty ring time (Shakespeare) Milkmaids (John Smith )
My Own Country (Hilaire Belloe ) Heracleitus (Callimachus)
Eloré Lo (anon., sixteenth cewtury)