Quartet No. 3, in F played by the Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (viollin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
J. B. Bamborough discusses the significance of some recent enquiries into the art of the theatre in Shakespeare's time
French Suites
No. 3, in B minor; No. 4. in E flat played by Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Last of three programmes during which all Bach's French Suites have been played
by A. Leslie Banks , M.D.,
Professor of Human Ecology in the University of Cambridge
Western medicine has developed in three stages: first came curative medicine, then preventive medicine, and finally medicine as a part of social welfare. These developments have taken about three hundred years in Britain, but now many Eastern peoples are trying to introduce health services on the Western pattern overnight. Professor Banks explains why he thinks that the resuLts of this may prove disastrous. followed by an interlude at 7.50
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Scottish National Orchestra
(Leader, Jean Rennie )
Conductor, Walter SussMnd
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
by David Glass
Professor Glass, editor of the quarterly journal Population Studies, considers the work of Gregory King , a versatile statistician, an official of the College of Heralds, and a pioneer in demography.
Part 2 (Victoria de los Angeles broadcasts by permission of the G.neral Administrator, Royal Opera House Covenl Garden, Ltd.)
Phoebe Ashhurner 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
Albert Ferber (piano)
Ten Variations in B flat on a theme
' La stessa, la stessissima ' from Salieri's opera ' Falstaff '
Six Variations in F. Op. 34
Second of four programmes of Beethoven's piano variations
A Re-assessment by Walter Allen
Sonata for solo violin played by Yebudi Menuhin on gramophone records