Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Geoffrey Bush (piano)
The Hirsch String Quartet: Leonard Hirsch , Leonard Dight
Stephen Shingles. Francisco Gabarro
(The second work is recorded)
A report by Yigael Yadin , Ph.D.
Lecturer in Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Dr. Yadin is the director of the James
A. de Rothschild expedition which recently completed its first season of excavations at Tell el Qedah in northern Palestine. This site, believed to be that of the ancient Canaanite city of Hazor, has already yielded finds of considerable importance, particularly in connection with the narrative in the eleventh chapter of the Book of Joshua.
(The recorded broadcast of March 20)
sung without accompaniment by Wilfred Brown (tenor)
The broken token; Shooting of his dear; Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor; The rich old lady; The lonesome prairie; The battle of Shiloh; The lover's lament; Poor old maid
9-' Publique Plaints
A talk by Peter Ure on some sonnets from
'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
Reader: Anthony Jacobs
In this series critics are invited to take a single poem, or passage from a poem, and examine it in as much detail as they see fit in order to bring out the full meaning.
The sonnets read and discussed are
Nos. 10, 33, 85, and 38 in Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, edited by Gerald Bullett.
Artur Balsam (piano)
The Haydn Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Friedman )
Conductor, Harry Newstone
Part 1
Divertimento in F (K.138)
Piano Concerto in B flat (K.456)
Talk by Cecil Roth , D.Phil.
In 1656 the Jews were re-admitted into England. No decision on the matter is entered in the records of the Council of State. Cecil Roth throws new light on this act of state, and suggests where the credit for such a bold decision lies.
Part 2
Piano Concerto in F (K.459)
The last of three programmes of piano concertos written by Mozart in 1784.
3-Eigbteenth Century
Songs sung by Margaret Fraser
Constance Mullay and Duncan Robertson
Music transcribed by Kenneth Elliott
Programme compiled and Introduced by David Daiches
In the third of these programmes David Daiches speaks of the Scots tradition as it was found by David Herd and Allan Ramsay , and as it was transcended by Robert Burns.
Talk by Bruce Miller
Lecturei In Politics and Head at the Department of Government at University College, Leicester
The 1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference opens in London on Thursday.
(The recorded broadcast of June 23)
Serenade for twelve instruments played by the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt on gramophone records