Chapters for a Bestiary

Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Op. 15: Brass and String Orchestra of Cologne (solo trombone. Helmut Sohmitt ), with Cologne Choir, conducted by Fnitz Str-aub : on records

by Maxim Gorki
Translated by Alec Brown Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
The action takes place in provincial Russia before the Revolu.tion

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' The Last Forty Years '
Last of five talks by V. S. Pritchett

Edited and produced by Denis Stevens
The Ambrosian Singers
The Orpington Junior Singers
Neville Marriner (violin)
Maxwell Ward (viola) Patrick Ireland (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
Julian Bream (lute)

First of two talks by A. J. Marshall
The bower birds of Australia and New Guinea, who before mating build display-grounds and decorate them with an extraordinary variety of objects, have been known to naturalists for more than a century; but it is only in recent years that progress has been made with a scientific interpretation of their behaviour. A. J. Marshall , Reader in Zoology at St. Bartholomew's Medical College, has made a special study of their habits, which he describes in his first talk.
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