of Sophocles
English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
Arranged and produced by Raymond Raikes
Music composed by Anthony Bernard
Chorus of Theban Elders: Laidman Browne (leader)
William Devlin , Valentine Dyall
Tom Hemsley (baritone) London Chamber Singers with the London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Readers:
Cecil Trouncer , Deryck Guyler
Heather Brown , Denis McCarthy and Philip Vellacott
Programme introduced by Raymond Raikes and edited by Heather Brown
(The recorded broadcast of April 27)
Eleanor Houston (soprano) Kathleen Joyce (contralto)
John Lanigan (tenor)
Alfred Orda (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Part 1
Talk by Compton Mackenzie
Compton Mackenzie recalls the many-sided personality of his friend R. B. Cunning hame Graham, who was born a hundred years ago, and whom the Dictionary of National Biography describes as ' traveller, poet, horseman, scholar, Scottish nationalist, laird, and socialist.'
Part 2
(Eleanor Houston broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells: John Lanigan , by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Ltd.; Rafael Kubelik , by par-mission of Harold Holt, Ltd.)
Another performance of the works by Bach, Mozart, and Janacek: tomorrou evening (Home)
A group of three talks
1-The Paradox of.Progress by H. L. Beales
Reader in Economic History at London University
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) put forward the view that population tended to increase faster than the means of subsistence. His pessimism was influential in the first part of the nineteenth century, but later his doctrines came to be regarded as out of date. Today, when the dangers of over-population are generally recognised, Malthus is coming into his own.
Janet Fraser (contralto)
Norman Fraser (accompanist)
Eric Hope (piano)
(A programme of music by Villa-Lobos: May 26)
Sextet in G, Op. 36 played by The Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Stephen Shingles (viola)
Florence Hooton (cello)
