Sonata No. 1, in D minor (1909) for violin and piano
Allegro; Romance; Rondo played by Bessie Rawlins (violin) Reginald Paul (piano)
A talk by Matts Arnberg and Ernst Emsheimer (with recorded illustrations) on the folk music of Georgia. one of the republics of the U.S.S.R.
Script translated by G. L. Knyvett
Read by Alec Robertson
The chief characteristic of Georgian folk music is the use of polyphony, which has been known in the Caucasus since about A.D. 900.
Les tendres plaintes ; La joyeuse; Les soupirs; La toilette; L'entretien des Muses; Les tourbillons; Les Cyclopes; Le lardon; La boiteuse played by Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Second ot three programmes of harpsichord music by Rameau
Talk by W. Haas Lecturer in German at University College. Cardiff
The speaker considers the value of common-sense statements. These he defines as statements that may be known to be either definitely true or definitely false.
Text based on the Childhood of Christ as described in the New Testament and in traditional English ballads drawn from the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels, compiled and written by Terence Tiller
followed by an interlude at 8.15
Monique Haas (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part l
by John Butt, Professor of English at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Butt talks about the ways in which monthly serial publication conditioned Dickens' novels, drawing his evidence from a study of the manuscripts, proofs, and unpublished drafts, and from Dickens' correspondence.
Part 2
A shortened version of the translation by Constance Garnett
The Renaissance Singers
Conductor, Michael Howard
Ralph Downes (organ)