BBC Northern Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
In a preface to his score Bartok insists on a special seating arrangement for the players. They are to form four columns converging towards the rostrum: the two outside columns consisting of string. players divided into two separate orchestras: the inner columns made up of the remaining instruments, including celesta, harp, piano, xylophone, and timpani.
by Antony Flew
Professor of Philosophy. University College of North Staffordshire
The 250th anniversary of the birth of DAVID HUME falls on April 26.
Professor Flew talks about Hume's notorious essay on Miracles.
by NICOLAI GOGOL
A radio play by Joan Littlewood based on the translation by Constance Garnett with sound and music by Roberto Gerhard
Singer, Owen Brannigan
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Die Winterreise
Thomas Hemaley (baritone) with Paul Hamburger (piano)
Six talks by E. H. CARR Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
3: History, Science, and Morality
These talks are a broadcast version of Professor Carr's Trevelyan Lectures given earlier this year. In the third talk he discusses the prejudice of the old division between the humanities and science, in which the humanities were supposed to represent the broad culture of the ruling class, science the skills of the technicians who served it.
Causation in History: April 29
These talks are being primed in ' The Listener '
Fourth of twelve programmes including all Shakespeare's sonneta
Marius Goring reads SONNETS XXXIII-XLII
Introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
Claude Kahn (piano)
The publication last year of Volume 3 of The New Oxford History of Music marks a stage in the changing attitude to the music of the past. In this talk DENIS STEVENS speaks from the point of view of a scholar who is also concerned with early music in practice. : second broadcast