Cecil Clutton gives an illustrated talk about the 'Father Smith' organ in the residence of Captain J. W. S. Lane at Walthamstow, and discusses the historical importance of Bernhard Schmidt
The Illustrations and the following recital of contemporary music are performed by Susi Jeans (organ)
Second of three programmes
Chosen and introduced by Conrad Aiken
The readings are designed to trace, in nineteenth-century poetry, the emergence of a recognisably twentieth-century tone.
Readers, John Glen and Denis McCarthy
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Music by Mozart
(sung In Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Vienna State Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Dr. R. Rossmayer )
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY KARL BOHM
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
The aotion takes place in a Spanish town
Act 1
Scene 1: Outside the Commendatore's house: Scene 2: A street; Scene 3: The garden entrance to Don Giovanni's Castle; Scene 4: A room in Don Giovanni's Castle; Scene 5: Don Giovanni's garden; Scene 6: The
Ballroom in Don Giovanni's Castle
Talk by Geoffrey Grigson
The speaker gives some impressions of paleolithic art, not only at Lascaux but in less famous French caverns such as Peche Merle, Niaux, Les Combarelles, and the newly opened cave at Cougnac.
Act 2
Scene 1: A street outside Donna Elvira 's lodging; Scene 2: A court-yard in Donna Anna 's house; Scene 3: A cemetery; Scene 4: A room in Donna Anna 's house: Scene 6: The supper room in Don Giovanni 's Castle
A case study by H. J. Habakkuk
Chichele Professor of Economic History in the University of Oxford
'The History of Unilever' by Charles Wilson is published today, and Professor Habakkuk reflects on the portrait it paints of the founder, William Lever.
Printemps played by Orchestre National de la
Radiodiffusion et Television Franchise
Conducted by D. E. Inghelbrecht
Recording made available by courtesy of RTK
New Meanings for Old Words
Talk by Geoffrey Wheeler
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 16)