Else Cross (piano)

Talk by Vincent Duckles
Illustrated by Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) and Desmond Dupré (lute)
The speaker, who is head of the music library at the University of California, has found in early seventeenth-century manuscript collections more than fifty songs with a decorated vocal line.
Illustrations include: Have you seen but a white lily grow? (anon), Shall I come, sweet love? (Thomas Campion), Care-charming sleep (Robert Johnson), and When shall I see my captive heart? (Henry Lawes). Most of these are to be sung in both simple and florid form.

Iain Fletcher introduces another programme of readings from recently published volumes of poetry
Readers:
John Stockbridge , Cecil Bellamy and Virginia Winter

Moiseiwitsch (piano)
BBC Women's Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Three talks by Enoch Powell, M.P.
3-Lords and Reform
When the first Reform Bill was passed in 1832 the Lords gave themselves over to such extravagant expressions of grief and dismay that it has often been assumed that one of the major effects of the Act was gravely to diminish, if not to destroy, the power and authority of the House of Lords. In the long term,' says Mr. Powell, 'in the light of centuries, perhaps the Reform Act of 1832 has contributed to the loss in authority and power of the House of Lords. But its immediate effect was exactly the contrary.'

by Moliere
A reading of the play in French
Produced by Michel Polac

Sonata in E flat (K.481) played by Szymon Goldberg (violin)
Lili Kraus (piano) on gramophone records