A comedy by S.N. Behrman adapted from the French of Jean Giraudoux (1929)
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by E.J. King Bull
[Starring] Roger Livesey and Hermione Hannen

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

(Recorded broadcast of Dec. 4, 1949)

John Russell writes on page 6

followed by an interlude at 7.50

Jack Brymer (cLarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conducted by Eugene Goossens
Part 1

The Popular Tradition
Talk by E. M. Wilson Spanish writters and dramatists have owed much, over the centuries, to the popular literature and songs of the Spanish people. E. M. Wilson , Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University, comments on this connection between the popular and the sophisticated.
Fifth of a group of talks

Part 2
An Alpine Symphony...Richard Strauss

Talk by Herbert Linton
The speaker believes that the playing of Bach's music is often spoilt by inattention to phrasing and accent, and in this talk he tries to show the principles on which the interpretation of Dach's music should be based
The illustrations are played by a section of the Goldsbrough Orchestra (leader, Emanuel Hurwitz ), with Richard Adeney (flute), and Charles Spinks (harpsichord). They include rhe first movement of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and part of the Suite in B minor

Joseph Weingarten
(piano)
This recital and the next on March 17 (the twelfth and last of the series) have been recorded by Joseph Weingarten on the piano made for Qhopin in 1848 by Mesers. John Broadwood and Sons, Ltd.

A Shortened version of an address by Sir James George Frazer
Read by T. S. Gregory
In May 1908 Sir James Frazer spoke, at the University of Liverpool, on his conception oi ' the latest-born of the sciences and of the pressing need for its furtherance. 'In another quarter of a century,' he said, ' there will be little or nothing of the old savage life left to record.' This reading is one of a group of programmes to mark the centenary of Sir James Frazer 's birth.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 8)