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Talk by Malcolm Macdonald
Illustrations played by the Band of the Irish Guards
Conducted by Captain C. H. Jaeger.
Director of Music
Mr. Macdonald believes that the military band has a contribution to make to mure in the concert hall as well as on the parade ground, and for this programme he has arranged various types of music toshow the sort of colouring that is possible for indoor performances.
(The music is recorded)

Contributors

Talk By:
Malcolm MacDonald
Conducted By:
Captain C. H. Jaeger.

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Maria Lidka (violin)
John Glickman (violin)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by John Pritchard
In its original form Matyas Seiber's Concertino was a Divertimento for clarinet and string quartet written in 1926 during a twenty-four-hour train journey from Frankfurt to Budapest. Two years later he revised the work and gave it a new finale; and in 1951 he re-scored it as a Concertino There are five movements.

Contributors

Violin:
Maria Lidka
Violin:
John Glickman
Leader:
Granville Jones
Conducted By:
John Pritchard

by Dylan Thomas
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon and The songs set by Daniel Jones
Children's songs and singing game recorded by children of Laugharne School

Contributors

Writer:
Dylan Thomas
Producer:
Douglas Cleverdon
The songs set by:
Daniel Jones
First Voice:
Richard Burton
Second Voice:
Richard Bebb
Captain Cat:
Hugh Griffith
Rosie Probert:
Rachel Thomas
Polly Garter:
Diana Maddox
Mr Mog Edwards:
Dafydd Havard
Myfanwy Price:
Sybil Williams
Mrs Oginore-Pritchard:
Dilys Davies
Mr Ogmore:
David Close-Thomas
Mr Pritchard:
Ben Williams
Butcher Beynon:
Meredith Edwards
Gossamer Bevnon:
Gwenllian Owen
The Rev Eli Jerfkins:
Philip Burton
Lily Smalls:
Gwenyth Petty
Mr Pugh:
John Huw Jones
Mrs Pugh:
Mary Jones
Mary Ann Sailors:
Rachel Thomas
Sinbad Sailors:
Aubrey Richards
Dai Bread:
David Close-Thomas
Mrs Dai Bread One:
Gwenyth Petty
Mrs Dai Bread Two:
Rachel Roberts
Willy Nilly Postman:
Ben Williams
Mrs Willy Nilly:
Rachel Thomas
Cherrv Owen:
John Ormond Thomas
Mrs Cherry Owen:
Lorna Davies
Nogood Boyo:
Dillwyn Owen
Organ Morgan:
John Glyn-Jones
Mrs Organ Morgan:
Olwen Brookes
Mae Rose Cottage:
Rachel Roberts
Gwenny:
Norma Jones
The three boys:
Ian Griffith
The three boys:
John Watts
The three boys:
Philip Cyster

Six songs transcribed and arranged by Egon Wellesz
Myra Verney (soprano)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Harry Danks (viola d'amore)
Introduced by Denis Stevens
Be m'an perdut tai enves Ventadorn; Lancan vei la folha; Amors, e que us es vejaire?; Can voi ta lauzeta mover; Era m cosselhatz, senhor; Can I'herba fresch' elh folha par
Bernart de Ventadorn, whose youth was passed in the service of the dukes of Ventadorn in Corrèze, was the only troubadour known to have visited England. He came in response to a royal invitation a year after the marr.age of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps the greatest protectresa and advocate of courtly love in the twelfth century. Eighteen of Bemart'a songs have survived with their original melodies. U.S.

Contributors

Arranged By:
Egon Wellesz
Soprano:
Myra Verney
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Viola:
Harry Danks
Introduced By:
Denis Stevens

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A monthly programme of comment and observation
Speakers:
Kathleen Nott
' The Decline of Fun '
John Holloway
' New Territory for the Critic
Angus Wilson
' The Future of Fiction '
F. W. Bateson
' A Harsh Word for the Novelist ’
(The recorded broadcast of April 14)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathleen Nott
Unknown:
John Holloway
Unknown:
Angus Wilson
Unknown:
F. W. Bateson

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