by Virginia Woolf
Excerpts from the novel selected and presented by Louis MacNeice
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It is written, except for short choral interludes, entirely in the first person--or rather in six first persons. Three men and three women are followed from childhood to late middle age through a series of soliloquies. There is a seventh character, Percival, who never speaks but serves as a focal point.
During the interval (7.0-7.10 app.):
Three-part Fantasias (Purcell) played by the Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis on gramophone records
The Hirsch String Quartet: Leonard Hirsch. Leonard Dight
This is the second of two programmes in which John A. Hawgood , Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham, talks about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , from the Missouri to the Pacific and back, 150 years ago. The talk is illustrated by readings from the new edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto.
Piano Concerto No.6, in E flat played by Edwin Fischer (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler on gramophone records
A talk by Mary Rowland about singers who accompany themselves.
The illustrations include troubadour, lutenist, and folk songs, sung by the speaker (soprano and Celtic harp) and John Runge (tenor and guitar), with Marjorie Layers (violin)
Unpublished poetry chosen and introduced by Richard Murphy
Contributions from Theodore Roethke , Philip Larkin. and Valentin Iremonger
Readers:
Felix Felton , Derek Hart
