Norma Procter (contralto) peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Canticle 1: My beloved is mine and I am his
Canticle 2; Abraham and Isaac
. Le Premier Train pour l'lnconnu
A radio drama by Michel Arnaud
English version and production by E, J. King Bull
followed by an interlude at 7.55
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Basil Cameron
Part 1
A group of talks on some aspects of contemporary French life
3-The German Influence by Kathleen Nott
To be repeated on January 12
The Present Phase in the French Revolution, by Donat O'Donnell : January IS
Part 2
Symphony No. 4, in A minor..Sibelius
(Also broadcast yesterday)
Illustrated talk by Desmond Shawe-Taylor
V. Sackville-West speaks, about the writing of Orlando, the book in which Virginia Woolf was inspired by her own conception of the Sackville family, of Knole their family home, and of Miss Sackville-West herself. In the course of her talk Miss Sackville-West reads a passage from Orlando which does not appear in the printed version.
Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Talk by David Piper