Sonata No. 1 (1895) Sonata No. 2 (1912)
Henry Holst (violin)
Frank Merrick (piano)
(: second broadcast)
JOHN L. M. TRIM, Lecturer in Phonetics in the University of Cambridge, surveys conflicting theories of the origin of language and refers to the recently published book by Dr. A. S. Diamond , The History and Origin of Language.
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Piano Quintet, Op. 57
The Beethoven Quartet: .
D. Tsiganov (violin), V. Shirinsky (violin), V. Borisovsky (viola), S. Shirinsky (cello)
Dimitri Shostakovich (piano) on a gramophone record
Written for radio by Giinter Eich
Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
Gabriele, a Jewish girl of seventeen, is in hiding from the Nazis with her grandfather in a Berlin flat. Inspired by an old newspaper cutting, the two of them reconstruct the story of a party of Italian schoolgirls lost in the Roman catacombs. They feel that their own real situation is illuminated by the imagined one in the catacombs, which for the listener symbolise the Nazi gas chambers. with Pauline Yates. Frank Pettingell
Coral Fairweather , Frank Duncan
Joyce Carpenter , Isla Cameron
Nona Blair. Anne Berestord
Ysanne Churchman Nicolette Bernard
Derek Birch. Glyn Dearman
Produced by Christopher Holme
See foot of page. Act 1
by Geoffrey Warnock
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford
Professor Austin died on February 8. A great school of English philosophy lost one of its most distinguished teachers. He left very little published work. Mr. Warnock speaks in appreciation.
Act 2
Poems by Egill Skallagrimsson of Borg
(c. A.D. 900-980)
Introduced by GWYN JONES
Rendel Professor of English Language and Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Read by Valentine Dyall
Egill's tempestuous life is of a piece with his poetry. One of his best poems was written to save himself from execution by the king of England, and others describe his exploits in fighting and drinking in England and Iceland.
Some of his organ pieces, including verses for single and double organ, a voluntary for the cornet stop, and a fugue played by Ralph Downes
From St. Clement Danes, London
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