Andr6 Malraux's novel
' La Condition Humaine dramatised by Thierry Maulnier
Translation by Edward Hyams
Radio script by R. D. Smith
Scene: Shanghai. Time: March 1927
Music by John Buckland conducted by Lionel Salter Production by Val Gielgud
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
(Also broadcast on Friday)
A monthly review of current questions in architecture and town planning
System and Style in Architecture
Walter Gropius interviewed by J. M. Richards
Walter Gropius , Emeritus Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, visited this country last month to receive the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. In this interview he speaks about current trends in America, in particular about industrialised building techniques and their effect on architectural style.
Part 2
(c. 1572-1651)
Talk by Marylin Wailes
Illustrated bv the Deller Consort and Charles Spinks
(harpsichord and chamber organ)
Three programmes of music by Martin Peerson are to be broadcast in the Third Programme on May 6, 16, and 23.
Quartet in C, Op. 61 played by the Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch. Leonard Dight
Stephen Shingles , Francisco Gabarro
Quartet in F, Op. 96: May 12
Talk by W. Bridges-Adams
When Sir Henry Irving died in 1905 he bequeathed the Lyceum tradition of acting and production to a number of younger men-particularly his two sons, H. B. and Laurence Irving. Mr. Bridges-Adams describes some of their productions and comments on the theatrical trends of the time.
(The recorded broadcast of March 2)