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(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Friday at 8.25

During the Intervals:
5.45-5.50 app. A movement from a Violin Concerto by Vivaldi played by I Musici
6.35-6.40 app. A movement from Rossini's Sonata No. 5 for strings played by the Virtuosi di Roma
Conductor, Renato Fasano
on gramophone records

Ross Pratt (piano)

by the Hon. Mrs. Mary Bell.
Mrs. Bell, who was Maid of Honour to Queen Alexandra at the Coronation of 1402, recalls the formalities and gaieties of the Court at Windsor.
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Ann Dowdall (soprano), Kathleen Kay (contralto), Philip Talfryn (tenor), Gordon Clinton (bass-baritone), Alan Harverson (organ and harpsichord)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
Conductor, Arnold Goldsbrough

Cantata No. 27: Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende
Cantata No. 147: Herz und Mund und That und Leben

Cantatas Nos. 208 and 206: August 17
followed by an interlude at 9.40

A discussion between A. J. Ayer, Professor of Philosophy in the University of London and Stuart Hampshire, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Mr. Hampshire thinks that, in spite of its lack of clarity, Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant reaches conclusions interesting to modern empiricists; Professor Ayer has his doubts. They agree that the value of going to a strange metaphysics is that it makes you question your own assumptions.
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A selection of recent verse.
Including contributions by Martin Bell, Alan Brownjohn, Patrick Galvin, J. E. M. Lucie-Smith, Norman Nicholson, Peter Porter and Peter Redgrove who read their own poems.
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London String Trio: Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), Vivian Joseph (cello)
(Recording of the broadcast on September 29, 1957)