Speakers: W. F. ALBRIGHT : DAVID FREEDMAN, editor. Journal of Biblical
Literature: F. M. CROSS, of Harvard Divinity School: and JOHN STRUGNELL Subjects: Jewish Religious Life at the time of Christ: Origin of Gnosticism; Influences on the New Testament.
Joan Davies (piano)
by W. B. Yeats
Music composed by John Buckland
The Countess Cathleen (Kathleen Michael); Aleel (Jack MacGowran); Oona (Mary O'Farrell); Merchants (Patrick Magee and Will Leighton); Shemus (Brian O'Higgins); Mary (Sheila Brennan); Teigue and The Angel (Jane Corbould); Narrator (Eva Stuart); with Jane Jordan Rogers, John Hollis, Keith Williams, Gerard Dynevor, Derek Smith, and David Bird
Adapted for radio and produced by Frederick Bradnum
(: second broadcast)
See panel.
The Pilgrim's Progress
in the Third Programme
A Morality Founded on Bunyan's Allegory
Music by Vaughan Williams
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
7.20-8.20
Prologue: Bunyan in prison
Act I
Scene 1: Pilgrim meets Evangelist
Scene 2: The House Beautiful Nocturne (Intermezzo)
Act 2
Scene 1: The arming of Pilgrim
Scene 2: Pilgrim meets Apollyou
8.40-9.10
Act 3
Scene 1: Vanity Fair
Scene 2: Pilgrim in prison
9.20-10.0
Act 4
Scene 1: Pilgrim meets Air. By-Ends
Scene 2: The Delectable Mountains
Scene 3: Pilgrim reaches the end oi his journey
Epilogue
See page ;
Three talks on the social order before the coming of Industry by Peter Laslett
Lecturer in History
In the University of Cambridge 3-Social Change and Revolution
by Edmund Spenser
April: The Fourth Eclogue
Introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
A new fortnightly forum in which musicians assume the role of critics and react to recent musical events, publications, or controversies of outstanding interest, positive or negative.
In this first edition:
MATYAS SEIBER reviews the recent Enghsh publication of H. H. Stuckenschmidt's book Arnold Schoenberg
SUSAN BRADSHAW talks about the first performance in Britain of Schoenberg's Theme and Variations for band
Topicality will at times preclude complete Information being given in Radio TIMES.
Sonata No. 1
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) on a gramophone record