The'Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble:
Leonard Brain and Natalie James (oboes): Stephen Waters and Archie Jacob (clarinets) ; Cecil James and Edward Wilson (bassoons): Neill Sanders and Alfred Cursue (horns)
An examination of the influence of Armande Bejart upon the dramatist's personality and plays
Written and compiled by Val Secretan
Produced by Terence Tiller
Narrator, James McKechnie with Prunella Scales , Marjorie Westbury
John Bryning. Oliver Burt
Allan McClelland , Eric Phillips
Keith Pyott , Harold Reese
Margaret Kitchin (piano)
London String Quartet: Granville Jones, Carl Pini, Keith Cummings, Douglas Cameron
First of three programmes
Hilding Rosenberg: String Quartet no. 4 (1939) - performed by The London String Quartet
first broadcast performance in this country
Fartein Valen: Intermezzo Op. 36; Variations Op. 23 - performed by Margaret Kitchin
by William Plomer
Mr. Plomer speaks of the difficulties of perceiving the human problems behind Africa's social and industrial revolution, and of the meaning to the individual of ' the rising spirit of Africanism.' His talk is occasioned by the publication of Africa in Transition, a selection from the Third Programme series broadcast in 1956. followed by an interlude at 7.30
Comedy-ballet in a prologue and three acts
Libretto by J. Autreau and J. Ie Valois d'Orville
Music by Rameau sung in French: on records with a recorded introduction by Humphrey Burton
CAST IN THE PROLOGUE (in order of singing)
CAST IN THE COMEDY (in order of singing)
Chorus of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY HANS ROSBAUD
Scene: Greece in mythical times
PROLOGUE: A vineyard. Acr 1: A marsh
by Richard Peters
Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of London
Character, wisdom, citizenship, getting through the eleven-plus? It is quite easy to adopt misleading models in thinking about the purpose of education, and very important not to be misled by them.
Acts 2 and 3: The same as Act I
A selection from his poetry
Read by Hugh Burden. Edward Jewesbury
John Sharp. Molly Rankin
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Telemann, Op. 134 played by John Clegg (piano)
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 23)
