April Cantelo (soprano)
David Galliver (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
Cyril Preedy (piano and celesta)
The Macgibbon String Quartet: Margot Macgibbon, Ruth Fourmy, Jean Stewart, Lilly Phillips
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (bass clarinet)
Paul Draper (bassoon)
John Burden (horn)
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Two further talks by V. S. Pritchett.
Sonata, Op. 26 No. 2 played by Horowitz (piano) on gramophone recorda
A new radio play by Giles Cooper
'...A rich and salty comic invention dealing with the adventures of an eccentric army lieutenant and his small and excessively awkward squad isolated in the Welsh mountains on a mission of questionable value...'
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conducted by Henry Swoboda
Part 1
A talk by Charles Janson, who has recently returned from a visit to the U.S.S.R.
Readings in interludes this week are extracts from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson selected by Janet Adam Smith.
A programme of unoperatic arias by Melba, Clara Butt, Lauritz Melchior, Alfred Piccaver, Florence Foster Jenkins, Vladimir Rosing, and Caruso.
Introduced by Nigel Leigh Pemberton