A chronicle of the Thirty Years' War by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd
Music drama in one act from the play by Oscar Wilde
Music by Richard Strauss on gramophone records
Cast in order of singing (in German):
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY CLEMENS KRAUSS
The Scene:
The terrace of Herod's palace. Evening
Graham Greene gives an account of his participation in a dive-bombing raid some years ago
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Symphony Orchestra of I.N.R., Belgium
Conductor, Franz André
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
Fantasy-Overture: Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 4, in G - Beethoven
The Minimum Man
Pierre Schneider talks about the clochards, or tramps, of whom there are some fifty thousand in Paris.
Part 2
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A radio adaptation in six parts from Volume I of ' The Lord of the Rings'
The music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters
4—' Many Meetings ' with Frank Duncan. Felix Felton
Garard Green , Eric Lugg
Derek Prentice , Norman Shelley
The programme adapted and produced by Terence Tiller
A programme about the various types of flute in use in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the music written for them.
Fritz Spiegl (transverse flute)
Christopher Taylor (treble recorder)
Richard Taylor (tenor recorder)
Stanley Taylor (bass recorder) with April Cantelo (soprano)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
The Liverpool Chamber Music Group
(Director, Fritz Spiegl )
Programme devised and introduced by Fritz Spiegl
A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including an account by Peter Heyworth of the latest Viennese productions of Aida, Don Giovanni , and Die Frau ohne Schatten; a talk by Edwin Morgan of the Department of English, Glasgow University, on recent trends in Russian poetry; and a comment on two essays by contemporary Spanish biologists.