Anne Wood (contralto)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
The works by Edmund Rubbra and Lennox Berkeley were commissioned by the Third Programme for Coronation Week. The first of the three poems chosen by Rubbra is taken from an ode ' Upon the King's Coronation '; the second is ' To the Queen: Entertained at Night by the Countess of Anglesey '; the last is from ' A Relation of the Late Royal Entertainment given by the Right Honourable the Lord Knowles at Cawsome House near Reading to our most gracious Queene, Queene Anne, 1613.' Berkeley's Suite though it makes use of rhythms characteristic of old Elizabethan dances, is a work thoroughly representative of its composer. H.R.

A radio survey of Queen Victoria's Coronation Day by Eric Ewens
[Starring] Yvonne Mitchell with Nicholas Hannen
with Dorothy Black, Patience Collier, Tita Dane, Valentine Dyall, Alexander Gauge, John Glen, Betty Hardy, Esme Percy, Robert Rietty, Anthony Shaw and Geoffrey Wincott
Narration by Hugh Burden
Production by Christopher Sykes

The Dutch String Quartet:
Nap de Klijn (viol,in) Johan van Helden (violin)
Paul Godwin (viola)
Carel van Boomkamp (celdo)

Talk by Paul Claudel
The programme ends with a readiing from his play ' Le Soulier de Satin '

by Henry Purcell
Doris Gambedl (soprano) ' Eilidh MoNab (soprano)
Edith Osler (soprano) Lorri Lail (contralto) René Soames (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
George James (bass)
Norman Walker (base)
Continuo:
George Malcolm (harpsichord) and John Sbinebourne (cello)
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
CONDUCTOR, ANTHONY BERNARD
Acts 1 and 2

A spectator's impressions of June 2, by Christopher Salmon

Acts 3. 4, and 5

1937: by Philip Toynbee

Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
Conductor, Douglas Guest
Ronald Tickner (organ)

sends a greeting in music and words to his friends in Britain
Introduced by Lionel Salter