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by Mikhail Prishvin
A programme of readings about winter taken from ' The Lake and the Woods: or Nature's Calendar ' by Mikhail Prishvin , in the translation by W. L. Goodman
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
Mikhail Prishvin , writer and naturalist, was born in 1873. He thus belongs to the older generation of Russian writers, but he is popular in Russia today and is still contributing to periodicals there. The book from which these extracts are taken dcscribes the lives of birds, animal, and men during the course of the seasons in the country round Lake.Pleshchcyevo.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mikhail Prishvin
Unknown:
Mikhail Prishvin
Reader:
Carleton Hobbs
Reader:
Mikhail Prishvin

or ' The Verbiage Collector
A tribute to a minor daemon who, by his assiduity and pertinacity in the collection of vain and unmeaning sounds, sank to greatness: inscribed for radio by Michael Ayrton
Together with offerings by Paganini, Meyerbeer, Balfe, Sullivan, Mossolov, Wagner and others, and John Buckland : orchestra conducted by John Hollingsworth
Production by Francis Dillon

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ayrton
Unknown:
John Buckland
Conducted By:
John Hollingsworth
Production By:
Francis Dillon

A tragedy in one act
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera
Conductor, Georg Solti
Scene: Mycenae in classical times

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music By:
Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Georg Solti
First maid:
Ruth Michaelis
Second maid:
Hildegard Limmer
Third maid:
Ingrid Steger
Fourth maid:
Bruni Falcon
Fifth maid:
Valerie Bak
The Overseer:
Ina Gerhein
Elektra:
Inge Borkh
Chrysothemis:
Annalies Kupper
Clytemnestra:
Res Fischer
Her confidante:
Hildegard Limmer
Her trainbearer:
Ingrid Steger
A young servant:
Walter Carnuth
An old servant:
Heinz Imdahl
Orestes:
Ferdinand Frantz
His guardian:
Rudolf Wünzer
Aegistheus:
Franz Kiarwein

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