A talk by Arthur Waley on some strange relations between Chinese actors and the world of the dead
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The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn) Jean Pougnet (violin) Thomas Carter (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola)
Anthony Pini (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
In six programmes Alan Lomax introduces folk music he has recorded on his travels
5-Italy: Sicily and Calabria
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
Pamela Bowden (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Frederick Harvey (baritone)
Alvar Lidell (baritone speaker)
George James (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
Part 1
(Also broadcast yesterday)
A study in misunderstanding by David Butler
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
In his recent book under this title, Henry Pelling described the varying attitudes of the British Left towards America over the past hundred years. Mr. Butler wonders how far these attitudes are in fact peculiar to the Left.
Part 2
A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
This month's programme deals with political and cultural developments in Italy and Scandinavia in recent weeks.
Translated and introduced in five programmes by Nora Wydenbruck
Read by Marius Goring
5--Ninth and Tenth Elegies
Suite No. 6, in D (S.1012) played by Zara Nelsova (cello)
by Joyce Cary
Mr. Cary has more unfinished novels than published ones, he says, but most of them are not necessarily abandoned. In his method of working they are an important source of new ideas and approaches.
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 14) Talk by R. C. Hutchinson : Feb. 6