Church Cantatas
(Der harmonische Gottesdienst)
Durchsuche dich, o stolzer Geist
Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude
Margaret Ritchie (soprano) with John Sothcott (treble recorder)
John Beckett (harpsichord) Desmond Dupre (bass viol)
Walter Emery discusses Bach's * normal ' and ' abnormal ' Sarabands
Script by Philip O'Connor
-based on research by Mildred Stock
General Bethune, Tom'sowner (William Sylvester ); Tom, as a child (Marjorie West bury), and as an adult (Peter Woodihorpe ); Charity, his mother (Barbara Assoon ); Frances Bethune (Judy Bailey ); John Bethune (Gabriel Woolf ): Carrie (Nadia Cattouse); Judge Dickson (Macdonald Parke); Judge Woodruff (Geoffrey Wincott ); Dr. Blackman .(Murray Kash ); Dr. Graham (Ronald Wilson ) with Jane Jordan Rogers and Marvin Kane Music, including excerpts from Blind Tom 's own compositions for the piano played by Peter Gellhorn
Production by David Thomson
(: second broadcast)
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PART 1
French music from London
(Programme arranged in collaboration with Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise)
by Melvin Lasky
Co-editor of Encounter
A recent book about Senator McCarthy by Richard Rovere has provoked discussion on how far the American press bears responsibility for the Senator's rise and fall. Alelvin Lasky finds the case against American newspapers not proven but he has doubts about some of the ways in which they fulfil their place in a democratic society.
PART 2
British music from Paris
Two Dramatic Monologues:
' Not Proven ' read by Catherine Salkeld and 'The Disabused' read by Deryck Guyler
Produced by Terence Tiller
String Quartet No. 3 tfirst performance in this country) played by the Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon , Lorraine du Val
Anatole Mines , Lilly Phillips