The Portia Wind Ensemble:
Mary Ryan (flute), Patricia Lyndon (flute), Rosemary Wells (oboe), Joy Boughton (oboe), Thea King (clarinet), Georgina Dobrée (clarinet), Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon), Wendy Robinson (bassoon), Valerie Smith (horn)
Conductor, James Verity
Les Buffons, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
John Bull, arr. Adrian Cruft (first broadcast performance)
Gordon Jacob: Serenade for wood-wind
by Geoffrey Tyson
(The recorded broadcast of March 23)
Act 1. The Celebration
Talk by Anthony K. Pugh
Extracts from forthcoming volumes of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' were published in advance in the "Nouvelle Revue Française". Jacques Riviere, the director of this review, corresponded with Proust from 1914 until Proust's death in 1922, and their letters, which have recently been published, illustrate the 'strategy' used by Proust in the publication of his novel besides illuminating the personality and methods of the two men.
An interview by Henry Mayhew Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon form 'London Labour and the London Poor'
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 11, 1953)
Act 3: The Bridesman
Act 4: The Bride
by Frances Cornford
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
To be repeated tomorrow at 8.55
Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz on Diabelli, Op. 120 played by Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) on gramophone recorda
Next week In the Third Programme: 'A Window at Montjouvain', a concluding Proust reconstruction by Pamela Hans ford Johnson. with music by Michael Head (Monday and Friday
