Hans Henkemans (piano)
Fantasy in D minor (K.397) Sonata in B flat (K.670)
Twelve variations on the theme Unser dummer Pobel meint (K.455)
D. Daiches Raphael , Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow University, speaks about the conflicting claims of religion and tragedy in the work of classical and Christian dramatists.
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Richard Standen (bass)
BBC Midland Chorus Conductor, John Lowe
The Language of Tomorrow
Talk by Magnus Pyke , Ph.D.
The speaker describes some of the ways in which electronic computers could be used to translate from one language to another, and speculates on some of the consequences of any such development.
of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 6 (Cantos 29-34)
Sonata for violin and piano played by Tehudi Menuhin (violin)
Louis Kentner (piano) on gramophone records
or A Visit to Marple Hall , 1838
Michael Robson introduces and reads passages from an unpublished journal which gives a sharply observed portrait of an early nineteenth-century squire.
Quartet in A, Op. 54 No. 2 played by the Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
Professor A. G. Lehmann talks about Victor Hugo in the light of Andre Maurois 's recent book Olympio.
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 18)