A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s
6 - Moralities: Allegorical Drama
'The Pride of Life' (c. 1405)
Extracts from 'The Castle of Perseverance' (c. 1425)
Extract from 'Mind, Will, and Understanding' (c. 1460)
Extract from 'Mankind' (c.1475)
'Everyman' (c. 1495)
Comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss sung in German
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted By: Erich Kleiber
Scene: Vienna in the reign of Maria Theresa
Act 1: The Princess's bedroom
(on records)
Why has Lucan's reputation flared so high every now and then, and always at the expense of Virgil? '... When loss of faith .. sends poets marching and counter-marching through the Waste Land, Lucan can be as much a standard bearer as he was for Piso's ill-considered conspiracy.'
Act 2: Faninal's reception room
A monthly review of current questions in architecture and planning
Sense and Sensibility in School Building
Mr. Tatton Brown has recently returned from a ten-weeks' stay in America, where he found standards and aims in school building very different from our own. Because of the much greater variety, he says, due to an almost complete absence of central direction, their practical solutions are often novel and suggest the need to re-examine some of our own accepted standards if we are to retain our present lead.
by William Langland
A series of six readings
Devised by Elizabeth Zeeman, Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge
Read by Gary Watson in a slightly modified version of the original
Act 3: A private room at an inn
A scene from the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (lines 224-512)
A single detail from a great painting may reveal some of the most significant images or motifs of the whole work. This passage from the Oedipus Tyrannus is presented in this light. It is, in fact, more than an isolated scene, for in this first clash between king and prophet Sophocles traces in miniature the curve of the whole tragedy.
by Geraint Jones
From Westminster Cathedral
A talk on Siam by Michael Sullivan, Lecturer in-Art in the University of Malaya
Musica da Camera
Solo Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 2, for oboe and continuo...Thomas Vincent
Suite No. 3 in C Minor, for harpsichord...John Alcock
Solo Sonata in G, Op. 2 No. 6, for viola and continuo...William Flackton
Oboe Quartet in F, Op. 3 No. 2...William Shield
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 16)
