by Rudolf Firkusny
A weekly review of the arts
This edition includes
John Bowen on Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo, now at the New Theatre, London, and his recently published play Orpheus Descending.
A talk about a gramophone record of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and the series of broadcast readings of the Sonnets Which began on Sunday.
1685-1759
Marion Lowe (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Alan Harverson (organ continuo)
The Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra
(Leader, Winifred Roberts )
Conductor, Geraint Jones
ORGAN CONCERTO No. 14, In A
(soloist, Geraint Jones )
CHANDOS ANTHEM No. 10:
The Lord is my light
From St. Gabriel's. Cricklewood
Chandos Anthem No. 9: February 7
A discussion
Speakers:
Glanville Williams, Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
G.E.M. Anscombe, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
Max Gluckman, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
W.C.W. Nixon, Professor of Gynaecology, University of London
In a book with the above title published last year Dr. Glanville Williams criticised the law relating to abortion, sterilisation, suicide, and euthanasia. His views are the subject of this discussion.
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 5)