by Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Sylvia and George Leeson
Adaptation and production by Donald McWhinnie
Cast in order of speaking:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Part 2
The second of two talks by Frank Kermode
The seventeenth century ' dissociation of sensibility ... from which we have never recovered' (in T. S. Eliot's very successful formulation) should be seen, Mr. Kermode suggests, as a local variant of the doctrine of the Renaissance as a great spiritual disaster. ' The myth of catastrophe,' he said in his first talk, was imposed upon English literature not after a dispassionate survey of the facts but in order to satisfy certain needs that became urgent in the nineteenth century.' In this talk Mr. Kermode tries to determine what these needs were and suggests that the myth itself has served its turn and should be discarded.
from ' Cantate a Trois Voix' by Paul Claudel
Dennis Brain (horn)
Carter String Trio:
Mary Carter (violin) Anatole Mines (viola)
Eileen McCarthy (cello) with Eileen Grainger (viola)
A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment.
