by Gordon Watson
by Glyn Jones and T. J. Morgan
A translation of some ninth-century Welsh poems with a reconstructed narrative
Produced by Elwyn Evans
The Red Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscript in the Bodleian Library, contains some 'hundreds of short verses known as the Llywarch Hên poems. Sir Ifor Williams, wlho has arranged these verses in sequence, believes that they formed part of two prose sagas. From comparison with other Celtic tales he has suggested the main themes of these lost sagfts, and on this research Glyn Jones and T. J. Morgan have reconstructed The Story of Llywarch the Old and The Misfortunes of Princess Heledd,
Peter Pears (tenor)
Hugues Cuenod (tenor) George Malcolm (piano)
Talk by Francis Watson
Can such work as the British did in India ever be successfully accomplished without developing the idea of racial and national superiority, with consequences that trouble the world today? Francis Watson examines this question in the light of The Founders, the recently published first volume of Philip Woodruff's study of The Men Who Ruled India.
A study in two parts of the trial of Marshal Ney in 1815 Written and produced by Christopher Sykes
Research editor, Harold Kurtz Narration by Robert Speaight with Hugh Burden as Reader
Part 1
Principal characters in order of speaking:
9.5 app. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Hohenzollern
(1772-1806)
Rondo for piano and orchestra played by Otto A Graef (piano) and the Frankenland State
Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Erich Kloss on gramophone records
9.20 app. ' The War Criminal'
Part 2
Principal characters in order of speaking:
Others taking part:
Alexander Gauge. Derek Hart Avice Landone. Betty Linton
Mary Morrell. David Peel
John Sharp. Anthony Shaw and Jack Shaw
Octet in E flat, Op. 20 played by the Whitehead String Octet
A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
