A play by Robert Nichols
Adapted for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes
Scene: The living-room of a house, formerly a Buddhist temple, on an eminence immediately above a Treaty Port of Southern Japan. Period: The year 1922
Characters in order of speaking:
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A survey of Spanish music prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter
('El Barberillo de Lavapies')
A Zarzuela in three acts
Words by Luis Mariano de Larra
Music by Francisco A. Barbieri
English version and radio adaptation by Geoffrey Dunn
Cast in order of singing: students, holiday-makers, police-guards, sempstresses, barber's apprentices, customers
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Repetiteur, Bryan Balkwill
Introduced by Roberto Gerhard
The action takes place in Spain in 1770 during the reign of Charles III
Act 1
The village outside the Royal Palace of El Pardo. Festival of San Eugenio
by Helen Barclay and Ethel Blair-Wilson
During their childhood Helen Barclay and her sister Ethel Blair-Wilson met, while in Edinburgh, many distinguished Victorians including John Ruskin and Robert Louis Stevenson. In this programme they discuss their recollections with George Bruce , who recorded the conversation m their home at Auchterless, Aberdeenshire.
Act 2
The Plaza de Lavapies, with the Mar quesita 's palace and Lamparilla's barber shop. Five days later
Act 3
La Paloma's room in the attic of a house in rhe Calle de Toledo, Madrid. Four weeks later
The novel by Anita Loos
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Piano Concerto in E flat (K.271) played by Myra Hess (piano)
Perpignan Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Pablo Casais on gramophone records
by Bruce Miller
The second of two talks on the cultural and economic development of Australia and her attitude towards the influences of ' home.'
In this talk Bruce Miller , recently of Sydney University, considers in particular the divergence between British and' Australian economic theory and practice. In sum, he says, the Englishman is a free trader and an investor, the Australian a protectionist and a borrower.'
The Dutch String Quartet:
Nap de Klijn (violin) Jaap Schroder (violin)
Paul Godwin (viola)
Carel Boomkamp (cello)
Four programmes read in the original and translation : edited and produced by George Hills
I-The Middle Ages
Readers: Joseph O'Conor
Denis McCarthy , Emilio Garcia Monton and Silverio de la Torre
William Pleeth (cello) Margaret Good (piano)
Anthony Quinton reviews the miscellaneous collection of George Orwell 's essays, published posthumously under the title England, Your England
