Ronald Smith (piano)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Talk by J. D. Krige
Professor of Social Anthropology,
University of Natal, Durban
Four programmes devised by H. C. Robbins Landon
3-The Viennese Symphony
(1760-1770)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra (Leader, Erich Gruenberg )
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
Thurston Dart
(harpsichord and organ continuo
Introduced by H. C. Robbins Landon
Six talks by A. J. P. Taylor
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford 3-Gladstonian Foreign Policy: the contradictions of morality
These talks are a broadcast version of the Ford Lectures delivered in Oxford earlier this year. They deal with the radical or left-wing critics of British foreign policy from the French Revolution to the present day.
A fable for broadcasting by William Golding
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
To the court of one of the Caesars at about the beginning of the third century after Christ comes a genius from Alexandria with three inventions which he offers to the Emperor. This fable tells of what the first two inventions did-but what of the third?
Quartet Movement in F
(first broadcast in this country)
Quartet in D minor, Op. 34 played by the London String Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Carl Pini (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Third of ten programmes of Dvorak's string quartets
Talk by Roy Pascal
Professor of German
In the University of Birmingham
A note in Kafka's journal makes it clear that Kafka not merely read Dickens but at times consciously imitated him. Professor Pascal reveals the extent of this imitation by comparing the technique of the two novelists with particular reference to Kafka's earliest novel America.
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 6)
