A kind of light-colour stuff ... good to keep you in an afternoon from dice at home In your chambers
by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
Adapted and produced by R. D. Smith
with music composed by Edward Williams and conducted by Marcus Dods
The Scene: London
An opera in two acts based on the comedy by Alfred de Musset
Libretto by Jean Pierre Grédy
Music by Henri Sauguet
(sung in French)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader.Arthur Leavins )
Conducted BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer, Jacques Brunius Repetiteur, Thelma Story
Act 1
Three talks by Robert Baldick , D.Phil.
Lecturer in Modern Languages at University and Pembroke Colleges,
Oxford
I-The Ailing Heroes
In the first of his three talks on pessimism in nineteenth-century French literature Dr. Baldick deals with the early, romantic phase of the malady.
Act 2
by Geoffrey Barracloiigh
Professor of Medieval History In the University of Liverpool
Professor Barraclough, who has recently been reading Sir Maurice Powicke 's Modern Historians and the Study of History, comments on what Sir Maurice has called the malaise which oppresses the thoughtful study of history today.
John Wain introduces a programme of readings from recently published volumes of poetry
Readers: Joan Hart
Martin Starkie , Duncan Mclntyre
Three programmes explaining as simply as possible modern systems of composition
1—Schoenberg and Twelve-note Music by Humphrey Searle
Illustrations include Humphrey Searle 's Passacaglietta in nomine Arnold Schoenberg' and part of Schoenberg's Quartet No. 3, played by the Hirsch String Quartet and on gramophone records
by Sir Francis Simon , C.B.E., f.r.s.
Professor of Thermodynamics in the University of Oxford
Sir Francis Simon discusses the rapid advance of Soviet science and technology and argues that this new strength is a vital factor in determining present Soviet policy. He emphasises the critical importance of scientific and technological manpower and the need for a drastic change in Britain's attitude to science.
Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Richard Standen (bass)
The Cantata Singers
Gareth Morris (flute)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
George Malcolm
(harpsichord and organ)
The Jacques Orchestra (Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conductor, Reginald Jacques
Church Cantata No. 82: Ich habe genug
Concerto in A minor, for flute, violin, harpsichord, and string orchestra (S.1044)
Church Cantata No. 67: Halt lm
Gedachtnis Jesum Christ
by Stuart Piggott , F.B.A.
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh
Stuart Piggott recently returned from Central Turkey, where he studied thirteen little-known prehistoric ' royal tombs' lying to the north-east of Ankara.
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 1)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jean Pougnet (violin) Thomas Carter (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola)
Anthony Pini (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
