Partita No. 2, in D minor for unaccompanied violin
Allemande; Courante; Sarabande;
Gigue; Chaconne played by Telmanyl
James Joll , Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, reviews E. H. Carr 's study of German-Soviet relations between the two world wars
(The recorded broadcast of June 28)
Opera in two acts
Words by Sonnleithner and Treitschke
Music by Beethoven
(sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera
(Chorus Master, Gunther Hertel ) augmented by members of the Edinburgh Opera Society
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Ludwig Produced by Gunther Rennert
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
(Continued in next column)
Scene: Eighteenth-century Spain
Act 1
Sc. 1: A room in the gaoler's house
Sc. 2: The courtyard of the prison Act 1 is also being broadcast in the Scottish Home Service
' The Open-field Town '
Second of three talks by W. G. Hoskins
Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford
In this talk Dr. Hoskins examines the topographical history of three Midland towns-Nottingham, Leicester, and Stamford-and shows how the different conditions of ownership of their adjoining open fielda have variously affected the modern landscape of these towns
Act 2
Be. 1: A subterranean cell
Overture: Leonora No. 3
Sc. 2: The square outside the prison
Two talks by A. P. Ryan
2—' Eating and Drinking '
What was life like in the %iiddle period of the nineteenth century; In these talks A. P. Ryan brings evidence from ' the old squares ' themselves.
The Aleph String Quartet:
Alan Loveday (violin)
Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Last of a group of three talks by Lord Kinross
Trevor Fisher (piano)
