Five talks by W. G. Hoskins
5-The House through the Trees
Concluding his series, Dr. Hoskins, Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, considers in particular the effect on the rural scene of the building of country houses set in parklands.
Symphony No. 2, in C minor
Ilona Steingruber (soprano)
Hilde Roesel-Majdan -(contralto) Vienna Academy Chamber Choir
Choral Society of the Friends of Music, Vienna
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
In this symphony, which was first performed in 1895, three purely instrumental movements are
Anthony Quinton speaks about what he considers to be the failure of post-war English novels to reflect the world we live in
Sonata for violin and piano played by Jacques Thibaud (violin)
Alfred Cortot (piano) on gramophone records
Illustrated talk by Eric Blom
E. A. Forster was a German composer from whom Beethoven took lessons in quartet writing.
The first of two programmes of Förster's chamber music with be broadcast on Friday at 6.0 p.m., and the illlustrations for tonight's talk are taken from the recordings made for phese recitals by the Macgibbon and Element Quartets.
A theatrical capriccio in one act
Words and music by Busoni
(sung in German)
Cast in order of singing and speaking:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra CONDUCTED BY JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer, Peter Ebert
Chief coach, Jani Strasser
The human implications of technical change in the ' underdeveloped ' countries of the world
3-Men and Machines
An examination of the human effects of the introduction of large-scale industrial enterprises, and of the social changes brought about by new ways of earning and of spending.
Speakers:
Raymond Firth
Professor of Anthropology In the University of London (Continued in next column)
Peter Bauer
Lecturer in Economics.
University of Cambridge
Frederick Pedler
Director of a company promoting trade and industrial development in West Africa
(Th
by Anthony Curtis
A study of Ibsen's influence on James Joyce as a young man; based largely on Stephen Hero , Joyce's posthumously published autobiographical fragment.
Characters in ' Stephen Hero ': with Marjorie Westbury. Elizabeth Cheatle
Gerard McLarnon. Diarmuid Kelly
Extracts from George Moore 's Hail and Farewell read by Norman Shelley ; from Lady Gregory's Our Irish Theatre, by Marjorie Westbury ; and from James Joyce 's writings, by Cyril Cusack
Narrator, Noel Iliff
Introduced by Mrs. Eileen Schaurek
Produced by Peter Duval Smith