David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
London Consort of Viols :
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshemd (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
First of six programmes of trio sonatas. July 20
The Exploration of the Background by Professor C. H. Dodd
The speaker discusses recent exploration of the environment in which early Christianity took shape. The remaining two in this series of four talks will also be given by Professor Dodd.
Next talk: July 20
Written for broadcasting by Laurie Lee
Music composed and directed by Brian Easdale
an interlude at 8.5
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Tyrone Guthrie
Music by Brian Easdale
English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
(first broadcast performance)
The action takes place in a small country school. The scene represents the Headmaster's study, the Matron's room, and the dormitory
Act 1
Talk by K. J. Fielding
It is known that Dickens used his father as a model for Mr. Micawber, and a Mrs. Jane Seymour Hill for the volatile ' dwarf Miss Mowcher. Unpublished letters by John DickensMrs. Hill, and Charles Dickens himself bring out the relationship between the real-life characters and the fiction.
Margaret Rawlings reads passages from the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(The recorded broadcast of April 27)
Henriette Canter (violin) Norman Franklin (piano)
Richard Adeney (flute)
Wilfred Smith (flute)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Gerald Gover (piano)
Sonata. No. 2. for violin and piano
Rhapsody for two flutes, clarinet, and piano
A discussion between
J. Enoch Powell , M.P. and Donald Chapman
