(Barbara Couper is appearing in Women of Twilight ' at the Vaudeville Theatre; Vernon Greeves , in ' Colombe at the New Theatre, London)
During the performance of the play there will be a ten-minute interval, beginning at approximately 6.55, when the following will be broadcast:
Szymanowski
Four Mazurkas, Op. 50 played by Artur Rubinstein (piano)
' on gramophone records
A masque
Words by John Milton
(adapted by John Dalton )
Music by Thomas Arne
(edited by Julian Herbage )
Narrator. Alan Gordon
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Elsie Morison (soprano)
John Kentish (tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Part 1
Arthur Calder-Marshall reflects on the technical problems of treating time in the novel
Part 2
by David Green
David Green talks about the fashions and functions of guidebooks, with particular reference to the series ' The Buildings of England ' by Nikolaus Pevsner , and the new guides by John Piper and John Betjeman.
Cyril Preedy (piano)
The Leighton Lucas Orchestra
(Leader, Ronald Good )
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
A personal statement on racial attitudes among coloured people by Peter Abrahams