Talk by Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Sir John Slessor
Sir John Slessor attended the recent Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lahore. He comment on the different perspective in which Asian peoples view such contemporary alliances and associations as NATO, the Turco-Pakistan agreement, and arrangements for regional defence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The Melos Ensemble :
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Paul Draper (bassoon)
Neil Sanders (horn)
Eli Goren (violin)
Ivor MacMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
An illustrated talk by Geraint Jones about the organs in the Royal Festival Hall, London, and Fraumunsiter Cathedral, Zurich
A radio programme to celebrate the bi-centenary of Talleyrand's birth
Written and produced by Christopher Sykes
Others taking part:
Michael O'Halloran , Kenneth Connor Macdonald Parke , George de Warfaz
Alexander Gauge , John Sharp
Edgar Norfolk and Olive Gregg
Magda Laszlo (soprano)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
Willy Heyer (baritone) Emrys Lloyd (baritone)
Myra Hess (piano)
(Continued in next column)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, Arthur Leavins)
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
by R. F. Treharne
Used in its present sense, the name Ovil Service * is exactly a hundred years old; but the reality it describes is ten times. older. In this talk Dr. Treharne, Professor of History in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, looks back into early medieval history to account for the genesis of the Enghsh Civil Service.
Part 2
'II Prigioniero
An opera
In a prologue and one act by Dallapiccola
(First performance in England)
The scene is a dungeon in the State Prison at Saragossa in the latter halt of the sixteenth century
Third of four concerts to be given in the Royal Festival Hall, London
A group of five talks by W. G. Hoskins
4 — ' The Rash Assault'
In these talks Dr. Hoskins, who is Reader in Economnc History in the University of Oxford, is concerned with the various ways by which man, from Saxon to Victorian times, has altered the shape of the natural landscape.
' Is then no nook of Bnglash ground secure from cash assault? ' Wordsworth demanded when the builders of railways began to manipulate the landscape on a grand scale. The railway engineers, took over from two generations of canal builders, and in his talk Dr. Hoskins considers the impact of botih canal and railway construction on the rural scene.
G. S. Fraser introduces another programme of readings from recently published volumes of poetry
Readers:
Mary O'Farrell Denis McCarthy and John Stockbndge
Sonata in G minor, Op. 6 No. 2 played by Pablo Casals (cello)
Rudolf Serkin (piano) on gramophone records
