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Jean St. Clair (speaker)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Part 1
(first performance in this country)
7.22 app. The Riverrun, for speaker and orchestra (words by James Joyce , from the final chapter of Finnegans Wake)..Humphrey Searle
(first broadcast in this country)

Contributors

Leader:
Granville Jones
Conducted By:
Hermann Scherchen
Unknown:
James Joyce
Unknown:
Humphrey Searle

A book review by the Rev. Canon J. E. Fison
There have been many books recently dealing with The Christian Hope, and Canon Fison has himself contributed a work on this subject. In this talk he looks at a work of New Testament scholarship by Dr. G. R. Beasley -Murray, dealing with the meaning of the Gospel according to St. Mark, chapter 13.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Canon J. E. Fison
Unknown:
Dr. G. R. Beasley

A new play by Philip Vellacott
Music by Anthony Bernard
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter ) conducted by the composer
The scene is the island of Ogygia in the Mediterranean Sea. The action of the play covers a period of fifty-seven years in about the thirteenth century B.C.

Contributors

Play By:
Philip Vellacott
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Leader:
Thomas Carter
Hermes, a god, and the messenger of the gods:
Anthony Jacobs
Calypso, a minor goddess or nymph:
Jill Balcon
Nymphs, Calypso's attendants:Phylo:
Edwina Rendell
Eurymele:
Olive Gregg
Cratylus one of Odysseus's men:
Geoffrey Lumsden
Odysseus, King of Ithaca:
Stephen Murray

of the eighteenth century
Musica da Camera:
Harold Clarke (flute)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin)
Tessa Robbins (violin)
Joy Hall (cello)
Hubert Dawkes (harpsichord)
Solo Sonata in D minor. Op. 1 No. 1, for violin and continuo. Joseph Gibbs
Sonata in B flat, Op. 7 No. 3, for harpsichord, two violins, and. cello
Charles Avison
Solo Sonata in E minor. Op. 4 No. 2, for flute and continuo...John Stanley
Trio Sonata No. 8. in E flat, for two violins and continuo. William Boyce
This is the first of a series of programmes of eighteenth-century English chamber music, devised and edited by Stanley Sadie.

Contributors

Flute:
Harold Clarke
Violin:
Vera Kantrovitch
Violin:
Tessa Robbins
Harpsichord:
Hubert Dawkes
Unknown:
Joseph Gibbs
Cello:
Charles Avison
Unknown:
John Stanley
Unknown:
William Boyce
Edited By:
Stanley Sadie.

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