First of two talks by Elizabeth Zeeman
Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge with readings by Gary Watson from
' The Seafarer '
'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and ' Piers Plowman '
Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
Master of the Choristers,
Douglas Guest
Christopher Dearnley (organ)
The Eton Choir Book, a large and beautifully illuminated manuscript in Eton College Library, is the oldest extant collection of early Tudor music, consisting of compositions by English composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Translated and freely adapted by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch from Johann Nestroy 's farce
'Freiheit in Krähwinkel'
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Patrick Westwood , Hamilton Dyce
John Gabriel , andFrank Tickle
Singers:
Robert Rietty and Alan Reid with the BBC Chorus
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston directed by Patrick Savill
Production by Norman Wright
Krahwinkel is a traditional fools' town —a German equivalent of our Gotham.
2-The Role of the Myth byEly Devons
Professor of Economics in the University of Manchester
In the first of these talks Professor S. E. Finer suggested that we should recognise the indispensable role played by pressure groups in modern society. Professor Devons argues that such myths as that of ministerial responsibility are none the less valuable.
played by Eric Parkin
Ondine; Le gibet;
The fourth of six recitals of French piano music
by Hugh MacDiarmid
A reading of selected passage*
