Set to music by modern composers
BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Talk by Kenneth Little
Head of the Department of Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University Dr. Little has recently been studying the modern development of Wear African society in the Sierra Leone Protectorate. He speaks about the ways in which the structure of fhis society differs from our own in spite of increasing 'Westernisation.'
by Abbey Simon
A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern English by J. R. R. Tolkien
Part 4
Frederick Grinke (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Madame Jacomin and Monsieur Broc'
Talk by Gordon Craig
Part 2
The novel by Anita Loos
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Divertimento in D (K.334) played by members of the Vienna Octet:
Willi Boskovsky (violin) Philipp Matheis (violin)
Gunther Breitenbach (viola)
Emanuel Brabeg (cello)
Johan Krump (double-bass)
Rudolf Hanzi (bassoon)
Josef Veleba (horn)