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Margaret Ritchie (soprano) Nancy Thomas (contralto)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
Richard Standen (base)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader. Granville Jones )
Conducted by Georges Enesco .
Part 1

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Ritchie
Contralto:
Nancy Thomas
Tenor:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Tenor:
Richard Standen
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
Granville Jones
Conducted By:
Georges Enesco

Talk by Asa Briggs
The Workers Educational Association has been cdebrating its fiftieth anniversary, end to mark the occasion a history of its growth' and work by the Deputy President, Mrs. Mary Stocks, was published recently Asa Briggs, Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, comments on <he place of the W.E.A. in the social history of the country during the first half of the twentieth century.

Contributors

Talk By:
Asa Briggs

Part 2
From St. Nicholas' Chapel,
King's Lynn
The tune in the work by Vaughan Williams is ' On Christmas Night' from the Oxford Carol Book. The Prelude was used as incidental music for the BBC West of England's serial version of Thomas Hardy s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy

' Ur Kung Eriks Visor '
(Five Songs of King Erik) sung by Arthur Reckless (baritone)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
King Erik of Sweden (1533-77), after imprisoning many of his nobles, was himself imprisoned and deposed. The first song tells of his making merry after arresting Sture, a prominent noble; in the second he sings about himself and his jester; the third is addressed to his mistress Karin ' after she has danced '; the fourth is a song to Karin from prison; and the fifth is ' King Erik's last song.'

Contributors

Sung By:
Arthur Reckless
Accompanist:
Josephine Lee

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