Peter Pears (tenor)
The Purcell Singers with An Instrumental Ensemble Conductor, Imogen Holst
Allegri String Quartet Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Part 1
Given before an invited audience in BBC. Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Tickets may he obtained by applying to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
A weekly review of the arts
This edition includes
Robert Furneaux Jordan on the Landseer exhibition at the Royal Academy
Part 2
by the Rev. C. F. D. Moule
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity. University of Cambridge
The speaker was from an early stage a member of the committee which, under the chairmanship of Dr. C. H. Dodd , undertook to produce the completely new translation of the New Testament, published this week.
' Our aitn was not to paraphrase, but to translate' Professor Moult comments on problems facing the translators and explains the principles they adopted in order to carry through ' an impossibly demanding task.' See page 15
by W. B. YEATS with Donal Donnelly and Patrick Magee
Between 1916 and his death in 1939, Yeats wrote a dozen plays based on some conventions of the Japanese Noh theatre. At the Haivk's Well (1916) and Purgatory (1939) are the first and last of these. At the Hawk's Well
Music by EDMOND DULAC from the original. production
Purgatory
Music by MAX SAUNDERS. Orchestra conducted by Max Saunders
Production by ANTHONY THWAITS : third broadcast