A play by T.S. Eliot
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]
(BBC recording)
(Denholm Elliott broadcasts by permission of the British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd.)
(To be repeated on Tuesday at 8.30)
Peter Forster writes on page 8
A fairy tale in three acts by Adelheid Wette
Music by Humperdinck
(sung in German) on gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
Choirs of Loughton High School for Girls, Essex, and Bancroft's School
Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY Herbert VON KARAJAN
Act 1: Peter's cottage
Act 2: In the forest
A series of five talks
5— Britain's Response to t'he End of Colonialism
by Margery Perham , C.B.E .
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
' Britain is faced with a supremely difficult task: the rapid adjustment to Colonial situations which, both for internal reasons and from the play of external forces, change almost month by month.' Miss Perham surveys the immense and many-sided effort, at home and abroad, that is necessary if we are to hold Colonial countries to the values we have begun to share with them.
Act 3: The Witch's house
William Plomer introduces a number of poems which he has chosen on the principle that gaiety is preferable to earnestness, natural piety to self-sufficiency, high spirits to truculence.
Readers :
Felix Felton and Carleton Hobbs
The Haydn Orchestra
(Leader. Leonard Friedman )
Conductor, Harry Newstone
by Sir Max Beerbohm
Many years ago Sir Max Beerbohm wrote, but did not publish, a few essays about some of his contemporaries. Two of these, on W. B. Yeats and H. B. Irving, he recently recorded in Rapallo for the BBC.
3—The Revival
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Charles Spinks
(piano and organ)
The Cambridge Singers Conductor, John Stevens
(Continued in next column)
Programme devised by John Stevens
The Rev. J. B. Phillips introduces his reconstructed version of the sermon summarised in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 7, with a new translation of the setting described in the ' previous chapter.
The sermon is spoken by Alan Wheatley
Quartet in A minor, Op. 29 played by the Hirsch Sring Quartet
by H. S. Ede
Some reflections on David Jones 's work as artist and writer, suggested by I the present retrospective exhibition of , his paintings, drawings, engravings and inscriptions at the Tate Gallery, arranged by the Arts Council.
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 20)
