Douglas Whittaker (flute)
Janet Craxton (oboe)
Richard Newton (bassoon)
Douglas Moore (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
Soviet Industry Upside-down by Victor Zorza
Part 2
A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment
Three speakers comment on whatever seems of most immediate interest in the world of the various arts.
This programme includes a comment by Arthur Boyars on John Gardner 's new opera The Moon and Sixpence at Sadler's Wells, and a discussion between Basil Taylor and Reyner Banham on the exhibition Designs of the Year at the Design Centre in London.
by Sheila Wingfield
Selected, passages from the poem read by Margaret Rawlings
Garfield Swift (baritone)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Lord, I have sinned: As freezing fountains; Hark, hark, the storm grows loud; Cupid once when weary grown; Cheer up, my mates
Pelham Humfrey
(with harpsichord accompaniment)
Chopcherry; The contented lover:
Consider; The night: The jolly shepherd; Sleep; Rutterkin.WarfocK
(with piano accompaniment)
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon
PART 1
Ronald Smith (piano)
by David Lack , F.R.S.
Director of the Edward Grey
Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford Over the past ten years Dr. Lack and his wife have made a special study of the swifts that nest in the tower of the University Museum in Oxford.
(The recorded broadcast of March 6)