The Fruits of Patience
Last of three talks by Stephen Toulmin
Marjorie Mitchell (piano)
Echoes from James Boswell 's tour with Dr. Johnson to the Western Isles in the summer of 1773 Written and narrated by Moray McLaren
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Calum Johnston (pipes) and Ian Whyte (harpsichord)
A romantic opera in four acts
Words and music by Albert Lortzing
(sung in German,) nobles, knights and ladies, hunters, fishermen, water spirits, apparitions
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana. Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benagllo )
Conducted BY ROBERT HEGER
The action takes place in Germany in the fifteenth century
Act 1
The inferior of a fisherman's dwelling by a lake
Talk by Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Sir John Slessor
Sir John Slessor attended last month the Commonwealtlh Relations Conference at Lahore. He comments on the different perspective in which Asian peoples view such contemporary aliiances and associations as NATO, the Turco-Pakistan agreement, and arrangements for regional defence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Act 2
A magnificent hall in the palace
by L. A. G. Strong
Between the autumn of 1921 and the time he left Oxford, L. A. G. Strong spent upwards of fifty evenings with W B. Yeats and kept records of his conversations. The themes that recurred most frequently were magic and the occult, writing in general, and the nature of poetry.
Act 3
The countryside below Ringstebten Castle
Act 4
The inner court of Ringstetten Casthe
by F. T. Prince
Read by James McKechnie , Marius Goring and Frederick Allen
Introduced by D G Bridson