Adelina de Lara talks about Clara Schumann, who was her teacher.
(BBC recording)
(See also 9.0 pm)
by Robert Browning
A reading by Margaret Rawlings
(Recording.)
(To be repeated tomorrow)
Quartet No. 3, in F played by the Aeolian String Quartet: Alfred Cave (violin), Leonard Dight (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Part 1
Fore scene - Phantom Intelligences in the Overworld; Preparations for invasion -Wessex, London, Napoleon's camp at Boulogne; The coronation at Milan; The battle of Ulm.
(BBC Recordings)
(To be repeated on June 24. Part 2: Tuesday)
[Starring] Robert Harris and James McKechnie
with Felix Aylmer
An epic drama of the war with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy.
Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed, who writes on page 9
'And I heard sounds of insult, shame and wrong,
And trumpets blown' for wars'.
Cast for the six programmes:
(Michael Shepley is appearing in "His Excellency" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London; Austin Trevor, in "Kiss Me, Kate" at the London Coliseum)
Nachtstuck in F, Op. 23
Romance in B flat minor, Op. 28
Fantasiestucke, Op. 111
Novelette in D, Op. 21 No. 2
Song-cycle: Frauenliebe und Leben
by J.M. Richards
A monthly review of current questions in architecture and planning
J.M. Richards talks about the difficulties of ensuring that the designs for our public buildings accord with enlightened public opinion before they are officially and irrevocably approved, and he comments on some recent 'cases.'
(BBC recording)
by Weelkes, Bateson, Byrd, and Morley
BBC Midland Chorus
Conductor, John Lowe
Katharine Thomson (virginals and harpsichord)
(Another programme of madrigals: June 16)
Discussion between Sir George Sansom, Nicholas Mansergh, Michael Lindsay and Philip Toynbee with Arnold Toynbee in the chair
(Yesterday's recorded broadcast)
Symphony in E flat (1873)
played by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Henry Swoboda
on gramophone records