Common Market, Common Standards by Ian Morrow
Managing Director of the Brush Group, Ltd.
Yeats on the speaking of poetry
Maria Lidka (violin)
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: exhibitions, new productions in the theatre, new films and books.
Two groups of poems read by Allan McClelland
Chosen and introduced by George Whalley
Symphony No. 1, in D played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Conducted by Bruno Walter on a gramophone record
by Nicolai Rubinstein
The fifteenth-century Italian humanists tend to be regarded as little more than rhetoricians. Dr. Rubinstein argues that the work of men like Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Brunt is, in fact, of great importance in the history of political thought. His talk is occasioned by the publication of Hans Baron's study The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance.
A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton
Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes
11: Drama at the Universities and Inns of Court
'Gammer Gurton's Needle' (c. 1550)
'Gorboduc' by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton (c. 1562)
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
With the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson
Full details of the thirteen programmes in the series are contained in The First Stage, a handbook by John Barton which may be obtained through newsagents and booksellers or post free by crossed postal order for 2s. 6d. from [address removed]
Maria Kareska (soprano) Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Germans at School by George C. Allen , C.B.E.
