String Quartet No. 4 played by the Tchaikovsky Quartet on a gramophone record
THE WEBBS by the Rt. Hon. John Strachey M.P , .
How far do the Labour movement and the Labour Party of today owe their shape and their purpose to the work of certain intellectuals in the opening half of this century? John Strachey considers the contribution of Sidney and Beatrice Webb , both of whom he knew.
Professor Asa Briggs on G. D. H. Cole : January 11
English Suite No. 6, in D minor played by George Malcolm (harpsichord)
The American poet
Richard Wilbur reads a selection of his own poems
Edited from a Pacifica Foundation recording of a public reading given at the University of California, Berkeley
A comic opera in two act9
Wordsi and music by PETER CORNELIUS sung in German
Chorus of the Society of Friends of Music of Vienna
VIENNA SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by HEINRICH HOLLREISER
Producer, Josef Gielcn
Acr 1: In the house of Nureddin
Second of two talks by Geoffrey Bushnell
The sequence of events and pattern of development in the ancient Middle and South American civilisations are gradually becoming better understood, an understanding that has been greatly helped by the Carbon-14 method of dating archaeological remains. Dr. Bushnell talks about the two chief pre-Columbian centres of civilisation, Mexico and Peru, and some similarities and differences between them.
Acr 2: In the house of the Cadi
Recording of a" performance at the 1960 Bregenz Festival: made available by courtesy of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk
Extracts from a diary
A radio script by Barbara Bray from the novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
The birth of modern French existentialism recounted as the story of one man with William Squire as Antoine Roquentin
piano
Haydn
Sonata In E flat
(Haydn Society No. 49)
Mozart Adagio in B minor (K.540)
Fantasia in D minor (K.397) Minuet in D (K.355)
Rondo in A minor (K.511) Twelve variations on Je suis Lindor (K.354)
: second broadcast