Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Henry Datyner
Conducted by John Pritchard From the Royal Festival Hall London
Part 1

by Robert Baldick
Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford The Boheme of the I840S in literary Paris was a kind of early beatnik phenomenon. It helped to create a persistent image of the literary man as a gay, irresponsible, and slightly disreputable figure on the fringes of bourgeois society. How was this legend born?

Part 2

by Bill Naughton

Bill Naughton takes listeners to a barber's shop in a North-country town on an evening in 1930, and again to the same shop in 1960.