Erik Saeden (baritone) Sten Envik (piano)
Schubert
Der Wanderer Prometheus
Schumann Belsazar
III der Fremde
Mit Myrthen und Rosen
Wolf
Zur Warnung
Selbstgeständnis Abschied
Richard Strauss
Heimliehe Aufforderung
Ach. Weh mir. ungluckhaftem Mann Zueignung
by N.F. Simpson
with Alison Leggatt and Deryck Guyler
The action takes place in the living-room of the Paradocks' suburban home.
Colin Horsley (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
A centenary assessment of East Lynne by Margaret M. Maison
The Divorce Act of 1857 produced a spate of improving novels in which adultery could be visited with legal as well as divine retribution. The most famous of these was Mrs. Henry Wood 's East Lynne which, her son said, was translated into every known tongue, including Parsee and Hindustani.'
Part 2
by Sir Isaiah Berlin
Tolstoy's great dislike of conventional education was the subject of this year's Hermon Ould Lecture sponsored by P.E.N., given by Sir Isaiah Berlin on November 23 in Friends' House, London.
This recording, made at the time, has been shortened for broadcasting
Willem Noske (violin) Piet Nijland (violin)
Carel Boomkamp (viola da gamba) Hans Schouwman (harpsichord)
A story by Vera Leff, read by Nicholas Selby
Mulvaney was a British fascist. This is his confession, a confession of murder, the story of a crippled life and mind.
Second broadcast