The Golden Age Singers:
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
René Soames (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde
by Maxim Gorki
Translated by Alec Brown and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Cast in order of speaking:
Suite No. 5, in C minor for unaccompanied cello
Prelude; Allemande; Courante: Sarabande; Gavottes 1 and 2; Gigue played by Casals on gramophone records
Dame Sybil Thorndike talks of a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years
Elizabeth Robins was the first actress to introduce Ibsen to the British public. Later in life she visited Alaska in search of her brother who had gone there during the Gold Rush, and this formed the sotting for many of her novels.
The Harvey Phillips
String Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Bean )
Conductor, Harvey Phillips
The prospects of racial co-operation
Exploitation or Development by Colin Welch
The speaker considers the effect of economic development on backward areas and suggests that any large-scale acceleration of this process so far from leading to ' partnership ' may be harmful to all interests.
The Lady of Shalott.
' The Dying Swan '
'The " Revenge"'
Read by Margaret Rawlings
Twenty-four Preludes
Op. 28 played by Julius Isserlis (piano)
A talk on Jean Anouilh by Merlin Thomas
Lecturer in French at New College, Oxford
The speaker explains why, in his view, Anouilh's dramatic intentions have oft:n been misinterpreted by English th atre critics, and shows that this contemporary playwright continues in the French classical tradition.
Horn Trio in E flat, Op. 40 played by Dennis Brain (horn)
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
