Metamorphosen :
A study for twenty-three solo strings played by members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan on gramophone records
Talk by W. F. Jackson Knight
The speaker is author of Roman Vergil and Reader in Classical Literature, University College of the South-West, Exeter. In this talk he considers what Vergil was attempting—consciously or unconsciously— to achieve in the composition of his epic, and comments on the subtle poetic technique that Vergil gradually evolved.
(The recorded broadcast of September 12)
Second of a group of talks
Next talk: October 11
Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Clifton Helliwell (accompanist)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Angus Morrison (piano)
(Continued in next column)
by M. H. Pirenne, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Physiology, University of Aberdeen
In this talk Dr. Pirenne explains how he nses rhe human eye (which is so sensitive that, with the aid of a powerful telescope, it could see an electric light burning on the moon) to study both the nature of light and the problem of vision.
A reading by the author of his poem
' Ash-Wednesday '
Produced by Terence Tiller
by Livia Rev
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Introductory talk by Watson Forbes followed by played by the London String Trio:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
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Robert Speaight talks about Pierre Emmanuel 's autobiography which has been published recently under this title in an English translation
London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol)
Desmond Dupr (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Robert Donington (bass viol)