1-The Lute's Apology for her Excellence
Julian Bream (lute)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Desmond Dupr6 (lute) Introduced by Thurston Dart
Stanislaus Joyce speaks about experiences shared with his brother James which the writer later used in his volume of short stories
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Charles Spinks (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
Given before an invited audience: programme arranged in collaboration with the Music Section of the Institute of Contemporary Ants.
Talk by the Rt. Rev. J. L. Wilson , Bishop of Birmingham
Helmut Gollwitzer was a pastor of the German Confessional Church. His book with the titte of this talk is in the form of a diary which opens at the end of the second world war It was then that Gollwitzer, a medical orderly, was captured by the Russians in Czechoslovakia. The diary tells of five years in a Russian prison camp and of the changes that came over the author's mind in respect of Communism. The Bishop of Birmingham, who reviews this book, was himself a prisoner in Japanese hands.
(concert continued)
The novel by Christopher Sykes
Adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker
Production by Christopher Sykes
During the Interval (9.40-9.50 app.): Artur Schnabel (piano): on records
A talk by Raymond Mortimer , who recently visited Morocco