Six lectures by E. H. Carr
Some reflections of the social and political changes of the last century and a half
6-The Road to Freedom

by Pouishnoff

Phoebe Ashburner reads and comments on some of her own translations of poetry by Cecile Sauvage (1883-1927)
Readings in the original French are by Pamela Stirling

Opera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Music by Verdi
Generals in the army of King Duncan of Scotland:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Florence Musical May Festival
(Chorus-Master, Andrea Morosini)
Conducted by Vittorio Gui
(This recording of a performance at the Teatro Comunale, Florence, has been made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana)
Verdi was thirty-three when he wrote Macbeth. A keen student of Shakespeare, he himself provided the libretto, in prose, leaving it to Piave to turn it into verse. At its first performance (Florence, 1847) the opera was received somewhat coldly but at the second performance the atmosphere changed. ' From the reserve of the first evening.' wrote a contemporary critic, ' the public passed suddenly to wild applause.' Verdi himself cherished a warm regard for the opera, and for the Paris production in 1865 he made a number of important alterations; as we know it today, therefore, Macbeth, though uneven in style, represents on the whole a more mature Verdi than does the original version. The sleep-walking scene, the duet between Lady Macbeth and her husband, the chorus of Scottish exiles in the last act, and many other pages, possess astonishing dramatic power and beauty.
(Harold Rutland)
The action takes place in Scotland and on the borders of Scotland and England
Act 1
Scene 1: A heath
Scene 2: A hall in Macbeth's castle
Act 2
Scene 1: A room in Macbeth's castle
Scene 2: In the castle grounds
Scene 3: The castle banqueting hall

Adolf Berle , Professor of Law at Columbia University and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, talks atbout Roy Harrod 's biography of Keynes

Act 3
A dark cave on the heath
Act 4
Scene 1: A barren stretch of country near the Border
Scene 2: A hall In Macbeth's castle Scene 3: A room in the castle Scene 4: Outside the castle

Robert Furneaux Jordan , T.R.I.B.A., Principal of the Architectural Association School, discusses the genesis of Charles Barry 's Palace of Westminster in 1835 and contrasts it with the circumstances that led to Sir Giles Scott 's new House of Commons in 1950

Trio in A minor played by the Rubbra-Gruenberg-Pleeth Trio:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
William Pleeth (cello)
Edmund Rubbra (piano)