Second of two programmes edited by Jose Helmer
Compiled and narrated by Alan Lomax
This programme illustrates the mingling of 'he Spanish folk-song tradition with the music of the primitive Indian groups.
'Recordings made under the sponsorship of the Mexican Folk Songs Archives in the Fine Arts Department of the Mexican Government)
by Margaret Barnes
Mrs. Barnes, who has been editor of a Southern Rhodesian weekly, who is a first-generation Rhodesian, and who describes herself as a representative of the unheard liberals, discusses the problems of the Federation and in particular of Southern Rhodesia's place in the Federation.
(BBC recording)
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A monologue for radio by Tyrone Guthrie with MARY O'FARRELL as Miss Porter
Produced by John Gibson
A spinster Jiving in the shadow of a cathedral talks about her father and the past.
2 — Diocletian
A.D. 284-305 by Moses Finley
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
Mr. Finley suggests that Diocletian has been peculiarly prone to the misguided intentions of historians wishing to draw lessons from the past.' He argues that although bureaucracy saved Rome in the late third century, this ' tells us nothing whatever about what bureaucracy may or may not accomplish today.'
Part 2
A series of monthly discussions each comparing different interpretations on gramophone records of a single work.
5-The character of Falstaff in Verdi's opera sung by Tito Gobbi. Mariano Stabile and Giuseppe Valdengo
Speakers:
Dennis Arundell , John Pritchard and Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Chairman, J. A. Westrup Heather Professor of Music in the University of Oxford
Mozart's String Quintet (K.516): March 28
Denis Matthews and Howard Ferguson (piano duet)
Fanfare (L'Eventail de Jeanne)
Frontispice pour Poeme du Vardar par Canudo
Ma Mere l'Oye
(: second broadcast)