Sonata for cello and piano played by John Shinebourne (cello) Sidney Harrison (piano)
by D. M. MacKinnon
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen
What has a moralist to say when the situation created by a long history of scientific discovery seems too complex and impersonal for human control?
Orlando Gibbons
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Conductor, Boris Ord
The London Consort of Viols
Hugh McLean (organ)
See. see, the Word is incarnate Behold, thou hast made my days Behold, I bring you glad tidings
Why art thou so heavy. 0 my soul
Fourth of six programmes
Guy Chapman speaks about The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain, 1787-8, edited by Boyd Alexander. This journal, now published for the first time, was the basis for part of the well-known travel book published by Beckford in 1834.
Ruthven Todd chooses and introduces readings from the work of Ogden Nash , John Crowe Ransom , E. B. White , E. E. Cummings , Dorothy Parker , Samuel Hoflenstein , Don Marquis , and Theodore Roethke.
Readers: Mary Lee Settle and Guy Kingsley Poynter
Opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow
Libretto by W. Friedrich
(sung in German) on gramophone records
The opera is introduced by Philip Hope-Wallace .
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus of Berlin Civic Opera
Symphony Orchestra of Radio Berlin
CONDUCTED BY ARTHUR ROTHER
The action takes place at Richmond in the reign of Queen Anne
Act 1
Scene 1: Lady Harriet's boudoir Scene 2: The market-place
Act 2
Ilhe Kving-room of PlunkeWa farmhouse
Four Studies in Barotse Law by Max Gluckman
Professor of Social Anthropology In the University of Manchester
4-The Case of the Disrespectful Councillor
Act 3
An inn at Richmond Park
Act 4
Scene 1: The living-room of Plunkett's farmhouse
Scene 2: Outside the farmhouse
Talk by John Green
When the Royal Show was last at Windsor, in 1939, overseas visitors could be counted on the hand. This year hundreds of settlers and farmers from the Queen's overseas dominions visited Windsor. John Green comments on their praise and criticism of British livestock in 1954.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16, played by Walter Gieseking (piano)
