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Talk by William Plomer -
William Plomer speaks- about the receswly published volume of autobiography by Gwen Raverat , Period Piece: a Cambridge Childhood. Mrs. Raveratis a grand-daughter of Darwin, and in her book she gives an intimate picture of a family group in Cambridge at the end of the nineteenth century which belonged, so it bM been said, to ' the intellectual aristocracy.'

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Talk By:
William Plomer
Talk By:
William Plomer
Unknown:
Gwen Raverat

by William Shakespeare
Adapted for radio by J. C. Trewin with incidental music composed by Norman Demuth
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
During the Interval (10.0-10.10 app.):
Respighi
Movements from Feste Romane played bv the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Arturo Toscanini on gramophone records

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Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
J. C. Trewin
Composed By:
Norman Demuth
Produced By:
Wilfrid Grantham
Unknown:
Feste Romane
Conducted By:
Arturo Toscanini

Salve Regina sung by the Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
An Eton College statute of 1444 ruling that Salve Regina should be sung at Compline dur ng Lent may account for the large number of polyphonic settings of this antiphon in the Eton Cho:rbook. The text is longer than usual, due to tropes (or interpolations) of English or gin. This transcription of a setting by Cornyshe has been made by Frank Harrison. D.S

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Unknown:
Salve Regina
Unknown:
Frank Harrison.

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