by R. A. Peters , F.R.S., Whitley Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Oxford
For several years Professor Peters and his colleagues have been studying the behaviour of a particular poison associated with certain parts of Africa. This specific study has, however, broadened into a more fundamental study of ' lethal synthesis,' as Professor Peters described in his recent Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society. In this talk he shows how some apparently unrelated topics fit together and lead to an explanation of fundamental biological processes.
(The recorded broadcast of July 9)
Kathleen Long (piano)
Nocturne No. 6, in E flat, Op. 63
Barcarolle No. 6. in F sharp minor,
Op. 70
Nocturne No. 7. in C sharp minor,
Op. 74
Impromptu No. 4, in D flat. Op. 91
Another programme of piano music by Fauri: September 17
In the second of three illustrated talks Edward Sackville-West compares different interpretations, on record, of the Arietta from Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. Ill
Schumann's "Carnaval": September 20
by Louis MacNeice
Suite for Recorders Cock o' the North
Didymus
Readers: Robert Harris Oliver Burt , Ian Catford
Andrew Downie , Derek Hart
Produced by Terence Tiller
These three poems arc part of a series written in Greece during 1950. Each poem consists of four sections or movements, each section being organically related to the other three.
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
(Continued in next column)
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Rome
(Chorus-Master. Gaetano Riccitelli )
Conductor. Fernando Previtali
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana. Rome See page 11
Act 1
Sc. 1: Near the walls in the newly rebuilt city of Milan in 1176 Sc. 2: A shady place in the grounds of Rolando's castle
Act 2
Hall of the municipal palace, Como
In the spring a member of the BBC staff, Ewald Junge , visited Matisse at his home in Nice
They discussed the chapel Matisse has recently completed at Vence in the South of France
('s) See page 8
Act 3
Sc. 1: The ory.pt of the Basilica of the Sant' Armbrogio, Milan
Sc. 2: A room in Rolando's castle
Sc 3: Lida's room in a. tower of the castle
Act 4
A square in Milan before a church
* The Golden Bird of Phoenix and the Land of Youth
A folk tale told by Paddy Sherlock
Orchestral Rhapsody: Taras Bullba
The death of Ostap: The death of Andrija; The death and prophecy of Taras Bulba played by the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Brno, Czechoslovakia Conductor. Bretislav Bakalm on gramophone records
P. H. Newby talks about James Fenimore Cooper (d. Sept. 14, 1851)
