Etudes
Pour les cinq doigts; Pour les quartes: Pour les sixtes; Pour les huits doigts
Monique Haas (piano) on a gramophone record
Third Programme at 5.15
British Drama 1600-1642
This is the first programme in the series. The second, "A Woman Killed with Kindness" by Thomas Heywood (1603) will be on February 1
Donald Wolfit in 'The Shoemakers' Holiday'
or A Pleasant Comedy of the Gentle Craft
[by] Thomas Dekker (c.1572-c.1632)
This play was first produced at court on January 1, 1600
Edited for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes
Music by John Hotchkis
The Welbeck Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch: conducted by the composer
A comic opera in two scenes based on the story by W.W. Jacobs
Words and music by Ethel Smyth
BBC Northern Singers' (men's voices)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Scene 1: Outside 'The Beehive,' a country inn, early in this century
Scene 2: The interior of 'The Beehive'
C. P. FitzGerald , Professor of Far Eastern History, Australian National University, speaks on the Overseas Chinese living in the vast region of south-east Asda
First of four talks
(Leader. Franco Ferrari)
Conductor,
Luis Herrera de la Fuente
The first three works are receiving their first performance in this country.
Poems by Pushkin, Lermontov,
Mayakovsky, Esenin
— and Shakespeare
Read in Russian by Alia Tarasova. Sergey Lukyanov and Vladimir Belokurov of the Moscow Art Theatre Company
English translations by Edwin Morgan. Erik de Mauny and Peter Russell read by Flora Robson and Allan McClelland
Tossy Spivakovsky (violin)
Jean Antonietti (piano)