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Talk by Tom Harrisson
Tom Harrisson has been Government Ethnologist and Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Borneo for five years and has just gone back for another five years' spell of service. In this talk, recorded during his recent visit to this country, he describes the domestic and social customs among a community of the Kelabit tribe in the central region of Borneo.

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Talk By:
Tom Harrisson
Talk By:
Tom Harrisson

by W. B. Yeats
The music composed and conducted by John Buckland
Production by Frederick Bradnum

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Conducted By:
John Buckland
Production By:
Frederick Bradnum
The Wise Man:
Liam Redmond
The Fool:
Allan McClelland
The Angel:
Mary Morris
Bridget:
Joyce Chancellor
First Pupil:
Isla Cameron
Second Pupil:
Josephine Crombie
Third Pupil:
Alan Reid
Fourth Pupil:
Thelma Pigott
Fifth Pupil:
Anthony Marriott

Three Sonnets and ' The Hymn to the Virgin ' from Canto 33 of the Paradiso
Read in Italian by Anna Proctemer and in English by Robert Eddison
Translations by Laurence Binyon. Margaret Bottrall and Percy Bysshe Shelley
First of two programmes of Italian verse arranged by Rayner Heppenstall

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Unknown:
Anna Proctemer
English By:
Robert Eddison
Unknown:
Laurence Binyon.
Unknown:
Margaret Bottrall
Unknown:
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Arranged By:
Rayner Heppenstall

Ralph Downes (organ)
Schola Polyphonlca Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble
The Deller Consort:
April Cantelo (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor) Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Norman Platt (base)
Directed by Henry Washington

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Unknown:
Ralph Downes
Soprano:
April Cantelo
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Baritone:
Maurice Bevan
Baritone:
Norman Platt
Directed By:
Henry Washington

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