by George Moore : from A Story-Teller's Hotiday '
SCRIPT AND PRODUCTION BY E. J. KING BULL with Jean Anderson. Beth Bovd , Patrick Boxill. Michael Brooke. Diana Campbell Peter Claughton , Roger Delgado. J. G. Devlin , Denis Goacher , Brian Haines Doreen Keog-h . Pat Magee. Joan Matheson , Charles Maunsell , Kathleen Michael
Maureen Pryor , Sally Travers , Michael Turner
Music composed and conducted by Peter Crossley -Holland
During the interval (4.0-4.10 app.): Gramophone records of Jacques Ibert 's Three Short Pieces for wind quintet, played by the Copenhagen Wind Quintet
or The Story of the Sleeper Awakened
A lyric drama in three acts by Giovacchino Forzano Music by Wolf-Ferrari
Translated and adapted for radio by Dennis Arundell
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins )
Conducted by Rudolf Kemps
Producer, Dennis Arundell
Scene: London in the seventeenth century
Acr 1: The Falcon Inn
by L.C.B. Gower, Professor of Commercial Law in the University of London
A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
In the eyes of the law, company directors are agents of their companies but not of the individual shareholders. Professor Gower discusses some of the implications of this rule when a take-over bid is made for the shares.
ACT 2: A room in the palace of the Earl of Westmoreland
Talk by M. W. Barley
Department of Extra-Mural Studies,
University of Nottingham
A detailed survey of minor domestic architecture in Monmouthshire has recently been completed by Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan. Mr. Barley describes the way in which the archaeological material has been collected for this publication and talks about the bearing of this new evidence upon social conditions in rural England during the seventeenth century.
Act 3: A cellar in the palace
followed by an interlude at 7.55
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A radio adaptation in six parts from Volume I of ' The Lord of the Rings '
5 — 'The Moria Gate '
For details see Monday at 6.20
Quartet No. 4, in C (D.46)
Quartet No. 10. in G minor (D.173) played by the Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin)
Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
No. 2 in C (D.32), No. 5 in B fiat (D.68), and No. 12 in C minor (Quarlettsatz) (D.703): December 23
A discussion between George Baker , Joseph Hislop , Franklyn Kelsey , and Desmond Shawe -Taylor, with Alec Robertson in the chair
Mr. Kelsey believes that ' laryngeal resistance to the upward thrust of the breath governs the whole question of voice training.' Singing teachers seldom think alike, and many would dispute this and other statements in Mr. Kelsey's recent broadcast talks.
I-Palamas and Sikelianos
Poems read in Greek by Elsa Verghis and in English by «
Jill Balcon
Translations by Ian Scott-Kilvert
Tomford Harris (piano).
Etudes d'execution transcendante:
Preludio: A minor; Paysage; Mazeppa; Feux follets; Vision; Eroica; Wilde Jagd: Ricordanza: F minor; Harmonies du soir; Chasse-neige
Last of a series of eight programmes of piano music by Liszt