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Illusion and Reality by S. H Frankel
Professor of Colonial Economic Affairs in the University of Oxford
Professor Frankel examines the basic economic issues raised by the Monckton Report on Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and considers some of the problems facing the Federal review conference which opens in London on Monday.
Second of two talks

Contributors

Unknown:
S. H Frankel

A dramatic poem by TED HUGHES
The action takes place in a small republic during civil war. The ageing Mayor and his family wait for the rebel army's advance.
Villagers and soldiers played by Harold Reese and Eric Francis
Produced by SASHA MOORSOM

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Hughes
Played By:
Harold Reese
Played By:
Eric Francis
Produced By:
Sasha Moorsom
The Mayor:
Peter Woodthorpe
Morgan, the Mayor's son:
Michael Atkinson
Elaine, his adopted daughter:
Diana Olsson
The Lodger, a law student:
Gary Watson
The Mayor's wife:
June Tobin
The Captain of the Rebels:
Norman Wooland

Symphony No. 2
Josephine Veasey mezzo-soprano
Maureen Forrester contralto
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgat * BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Paul Beard
Conducted by Lorin Maazel

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Josephine Veasey
Contralto:
Maureen Forrester
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgat
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

David Sylvester interviews five American
Abstract Expressionists
5: Willem de Kooning
These interviews were recorded in New York earlier this year. The title given to the series relates to its main recurrent idea-that, in painting spontaneously towards the realisation of an unforeseen pictorial order, the painter is discovering his own identity.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Sylvester

Octet played by the Vienna Octet
Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet) Rudolf Hanzl (bassoon) Josef Veleba (horn)
Willi Boskovsky (violin) Philipp Matheis (violin)
GUnther Breitenbach (viola) Nikolaus Hubner (cello)
Johann Krump (double-bass) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Clarinet:
Alfred Boskovsky
Bassoon:
Rudolf Hanzl
Horn:
Josef Veleba
Violin:
Willi Boskovsky
Violin:
Philipp Matheis
Viola:
Gunther Breitenbach
Cello:
Nikolaus Hubner
Double-Bass:
Johann Krump

Third Programme

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