May

The Deller Consort: April Cantelo (soprano)
Alfred Deller (coumter-tenor)
Gerald English (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone) with Desmond Dupré (lute) pine knacks for ladies; Can she excuse my wrongs; Away with these self-loving lads; Thou mighty God; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; It was a rime.
Second of tiwo programmes of music from Volume 6 of Musica Britannica

by Edward Gibbon
A programme of readings from the sixty-eighth chapter of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to commemorate the quincentenary of the fall of Byzantium, May 29, 1453
(BBC reoorddng)

William Primrose (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Ballet music: The Perfect Fool.Holit
Introduction and Dance of the Spirits of Eanth; Dance of the Spirits of Water; Dance of the Spirits of Fire

Talk by Riccardo Aragno
Riccardo Aragno reports on what he describes as a highly emotional electoral campaign, in which the man-in-the-street is seeking for a formula that will allow him to vote without expressing approval. The speaker is London correspondent of La Stampa.

Part 2

A series of illustrated talks by Edward Sackville-West.
In each of these talks Edward Sackville-West will consider the characteristic style of particular pianist, his approach to his repertoire, and his interpretation of the great works in it.
The three other pianists to be considered are Myra Hess (June 11), Schnabel (June 18) and Rosenthal (June 25).

for wind instruments
Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble:
Leonard Brain (oboe) Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Basil Tschaikov (clarinet) John Alexandra (bassoon)
Peter Parry (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Ian Beers (horn)

Soviet Novels since the Second World War
Talk by Helen Rapp
Lecturer in Russian at Oxford University