Talk by Herbert Butterfield Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge
Professor Butterfield maintains the tbesis that ' it is better to treat power as an object of science than to rely on the good intentions of the giant after he has acquired the power.
(The recorded broadcast of May 20)
Piano Trio, Op. 67 played by the Alban Trio:
John McMeighan (violin)
James Palmer (cello)
Kenneth Dawkins (piano)
A sound picture of a London street market
Devised and recorded by Ludwig Koch '
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Music by Verdi
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin
(Chorus-Master. Roberto Benaglio)
Conductor, Mario Rossi
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana, Milan)
(Continued in next column)
The action takes place in Spain and Italy in the middle of the eighteenth
Leonora's bedchamber in her father's castle in Seville
Act 2
Sc. 1: The kitchen of an Inn at Hornachuelos
Sc 2: The monastery at Hornachuelos
Talk by Ronald Bottrall
The speaker comments on ' The Pisan Cantos,' ' Letters of Ezra Pound ' edited by D. D. Paige , and ' Ezra Pound ' by Hugh Kenner , and he makes a personal assessment of Pound's poetry and influence.
Ronald BottraU 's own volumes of poetry include 'The Loosening,' 'Farewell and Welcome,' and ' The Palisades of Fear.' He is also a critic, and in 1933 he wrote one of the first studies of 'A Draft of XXX Cantos.'
Act 3
Sc. 1: The battlefield near Velletri in Italy
Sc. 2: Another part of the battlefield
Act 4
Sc. 1: The monastery at Hornachuelos Sc. 2: Leonora's refuge in the mountains
Talk by John Hatch
The speaker, who has recently returned from an extensive visit to British African territories, examines the issues involved in the proposed federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.
Stephen Spender chooses and introduces a number of poems
Read by Denis McCarthy
(piano)
