Geoffrey Grigson talks about some English caves and the different ways in which men have been fascinated by them through the centuries
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 26)
Helen Perkin (piano)
Three London Pieces:
Chelsea Reach; Ragamuffin; Soho forenoons
Sonatina
April; Equinox
A talk by Graham Hutton on a recent reprint of ' Morals in Evolution' by L. T. Hobhouse
(Recording.) To be repeated tomorrow
A Usyless Discussion on Hamlet or Hamnet
Arranged for broadcasting by John Keir Cross from a Shakespearean Dialogue by James Joyce
Production by Donald McWhinnie
followed by an Interlude at 7.50
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Norman Walker (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader. Maurice Clare )
Douglas Moore (hom)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Charles Spinks (organ)
Conducted by Georges Enesco
Part 1
A series of talks suggested by the South Bank Exhibition
3-Workmanship and Design in Contemporary Furniture by David W. Pye , A.R.I.B.A., a designer and maker of furniture
Part 2
(Norman Walker broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.)
Another performance tomorrow (all Home Services except Welsh)
An impression of London by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by R. Gill
Read by Leonard Sachs
This sketch appeared in 1863 as part of Dostoevsky's Winter Notes on my Summer Impressions.
(To be repeated on July 25)
Sonata No. 4, in C, Op. 72 for violin and piano played by Suzanne Rosza (violin)
Paul Hamburger (piano)
Max Reger wrote nine sonatas for violin and piano; No. 4 was composed in Munich in 1903 and first performed in the following year at a music festival in Frankfurt by Henri Marteau , the French violinist, and Reser himself.
Fragments of Ancient Poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland andtranslated from the Gaelic or Erse Language by James Macpherson , 1760
A selection made and presented by Rayner Heppenstall
Read by Alastair Duncan. Duncan Mclntyre
David Peel. Dorothy Smith
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 13)
