A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment including:
John Bowen on West Side Story; and a talk on The Barren One, Lore. , . play
Yerma transposed into terms of a West Indian community by Sylvia Wynter, broadcast in the Third Programme on Sunday.
A Musical Controversy of the 1700s
Robert Donington recalls Raguenet's once notorious
' Comparison between the French and Italian Music and The Donington Consort plays examples of the rival styles and of music foreshadowing their eventual reconciliation
Carl Pini (violin)
Penelope Howard (violin)
Robert Donington (viola da gamba)
Harold Lester (harpsichord continuo)
An imaginary episode from the German occupation of Poland by Fred von Hoerschelmann
Translated from the German by Richard Graves
Others taking part:
Arthur Lawrence , Arthur Ridley and Michael F. Rittermann
Production by Christopher Holme
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 25)
We are familiar with dramas of the Nazi terror in occupied Europe and the problems of conscience with which its individual victims were often faced. We have heard less about the conflicts of loyalty and morality in which individual Germans were involved.
Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Frederick Stone (piano)
(The songs are recorded)
Second of two programmes