Divertimento in G. Op. 100 No. 2 played by the Danish Quartet:
Gilbert Jeapersen (flute)
Erling Bloch (violin)
Asger Christiansen (cello) Lund Christiansen (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by Dudley Seers ,
Lecturer in Economic Statistics in the University of Oxford
An expert committee set up by the Government has been in session for some time to determine whether a new cost-of-living index should be established. The speaker outlines the wider economic issues raised by the apparently technical question of how such an index should be constructed.
.(The recorded broadcast ot March 2)
(piano)
Told by Paddy Sherlock
followed by an interlude at 7.56
An Elizabethan Jig
From the Great Hall Hampton Court Palace by gracious permission of H.M. The King The London Opera Club presents An Elizabethan Jig and at 8.50 a Masque by Congreve
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader Andrew Cooper)
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
The contemporary airs arranged by Elizabeth Poston
Harold Rutland writes in this issue
Talk by J. D. Scott
Wyndham Lewis ' first novel was published in 1918 and his latest in 1941. A current re-issue of his novels is taken as an occasion for looking at them in a new perspective.
A Masque by William Congreve
Music by John Eccles
Edited by Anthony Bernard
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
Conductor. Anthony Bernard
Production by Denis Freemen
(Monica Sinclair broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.; Alexander Young , by permission of Glyndebourne Opera) followed by an interlude at 10.0
Desmond S'hawe-Taylor talks about the Love Duet from Verdi's ' Otello.'
With illustrations from the recorded performances of Zenatel,lo and Spani. Merli and Muzio, Martinelli and Jepson, Lauri-Volpi and Caniglia, and others
Second of three talks. Last talk: Aug.2
String Quartet played by the Quatuor Haydn :
Geonges Maes (violin) Louis Hertogh (violin)
Louis Logie (viola)
Rene Pousseele (cello)
by James and Horace Smith
A selection introduced and read by W J. White
Poems by A. E. Housman sung by Philip Hattey
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
