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by the Hon. N. C. Havenga ,
Minister of Finance in the Union of South Africa
Mr. Havenga recently attended the annual conference of tht International Monetary Fund in Mexico City. He speaks about his attempt to secure a higher price for gold and of South. Africa's present role in world economy as the chief gold-producing country.
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
N. C. Havenga

W. B. Stanford reviews the book recently published under this title by Sir Maurice Bowra
The speaker, who is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, comments on the revolution in the interpretation of ancient and modern epic poetry produced, in recent years, by the use of the comparative method in the study of literature.

Contributors

Unknown:
B. Stanford
Unknown:
Sir Maurice Bowra

by Bernard Shaw

Cast in order of speaking:

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
Esme Percy
Strephon:
David Peel
The He-Ancient:
Wilfred Fletcher
Chloe:
Yvonne Manners
Acis:
David Enders
The She-Ancient:
Nancy Price
The Newly Born:
Diana Maddox
Ecrasia:
Olive Gregg
Arjillax:
Denis McCarthy
Martellus:
Derek Aylward
Pygmalion:
Martin Walker
The Female Figure:
Hazel Terry
The Male Figure:
Patrick Troughton
Eve:
Gudrun Ure
Adam:
Robert Rietty
Cain:
Norman Wooland
The Serpent:
Jane Henderson
Lilith:
Beatrix Lehmann
The Narrator:
Geoffrey Lewis

Joan Gray (contralto)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
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First of three programmes
Herbert Howells , Who celebrates his sixtieth birthday a week today (October 17), wrote ' King David ' and ' Gavottc ' in 1919. are by ; those of the second by Sir Henry Newbolt.
The four sonnets of John Donne were set to music by William Wordsworth in 1944. Of the songs by Edmund Rubbra , the first three date from the years 1928 to 1931 and are settings to poems by Murdoch Maclean , James Thomson , and Shelley respectively. Psalm 150, ' Praise ye the Lord, (the last of ' Three Psalms '), was composed some five years ago.
Harold Rutland

Contributors

Contralto:
Joan Gray
Bass-Baritone:
Hervey Alan
Accompanist:
Frederick Stone
Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Unknown:
Sir Henry Newbolt.
Unknown:
John Donne
Music By:
William Wordsworth
Songs By:
Edmund Rubbra
Unknown:
Murdoch MacLean
Unknown:
James Thomson
The words of the first song:
Walter de la Mare

Third Programme

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