John Ngcobo (baritone) introduces and sings some of the songs of his people as they may be heard in Africa today
Accompanist, Clifton Helliwell
introduces and reads some of his own poems about middle-age
Concertge.bouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Conductor, Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 33, in B flat (K.319)
(Mozart)
Prelude and Entr'acte: Marsyas
(Alphons Diepenbrock) on gramophone records
Talk by Mervyn Ellison , sc.D. of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh Dr. Ellison gives his impressions of the recent eclipse, which he saw from the air at an altitude of some 30,000 feet near Iceland. He also describes some of the problems connected with the solar atmosphere and its influence upon the earth that have come to the fore in recent years, and explains why astronomers travel great distances to make observations in the track of the moon's shadow.
To be repeated on July 14
An original radio play by Padraic Fallon
Production by Martyn C. Webster
(The recorded broadcast of June 13)
The title of this tart, ironic Irish anecdote, Steeple Jerkin, is a contraction of the drama's two main elements. One is the character of Jerkin, a retired longshoreman in an Irish port who is so called because of his limp; once decorated for bravery at sea, he has become a sour, much-disliked old man. And the steeple belongs to the local church. To climb it during repairs becomes a 'dare,' but the joke takes a grim turn when Jerkin sees it as a challenge from his enemies among the townsfolk. ((P. F.)
A song-cycle
Words by Wilhelm Muller
Sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) with Gerald Moore (piano)
Gute Nacht; Die Wetterfaihne; Gefrorne Phranen; Erstarrung; Der Lindenbaum; Wasserfluth; Auf dem Flusee; Ruckblick; Irrlicht; Ras't; Fruh-lingstraum; Einsamkeit
Continued at 10.0
by Carmen Blacker
Carmen Blacker speaks about this ' most influential of Japanese thinkers' who, in the last century, was able to teach a still feudal Japan that Western civilisation was not a matter of battleships.
(continued)
Die Post; Der greise Kopf; Dit Krabe ; Letzte Hoffnung ; ImDorfe; Der Miirmisdhe Morgen; Tauschung; Der Wegweiser; Das Wirtihshaus ; Mut: De Nebensonnen; Der Leiermann
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 29) The first of twelve Schubert lider recitals devised by Richard Capell
Talk by John Raymond
Regularly, for almost twenty years, Princess Marie Radziwill kept up a private diplomatic correspondence with her friend Henri di Robilant , an Italian soldier. After her death he had her letters privately published. They provide us with a vivid glimpse of the political world of Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg in the years before 1914.
(The recorded broadcast of April 30)
Quintet in A, Op. 146 for clarinet and strings played by the Denis East Quartet with Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
