Oliver Neighbour introduces a programme of music on records
Comprising the Five Orchestral Pieces, the Violin Concerto, and ' A Survivor from Warsaw ' (for speaker, men's chorus, and orchestra)
Records of music by Alban Berg , introduced by Humphrey Searle : June 7
A report on the Soviet point of view as expressed recently in the Soviet Press and broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC foreign news department
A selection of longer poems introduced by the author who also reads a new elegy
' The Gold Disc '
The other readers are
Godfrey Kenton , Martin Starkie and Michael Turner
Symphony No. 1, in D played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Bruno Walter
by Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S.
Director. British Museum
(Natural History)
Sir Gavin de Beer , F.R.S. describes his researches, extending over many years, on the question of Hannibal's route across the Alps. He explains how he has brought his scientific training to bear on this age-old problem in classical scholarship, and gives his solution to it.
A workshop record based on the correspondence between Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss
Devised by H. A. Hammelmann
Production by Christopher Sykes
played by Dyna August
