Teresa Stich-Randall soprano
Norma Procter contralto
William McAlpine tenor
Michael Langdon base
BBC Chorus and Choral Society
Harrow Choral Society
Conductor, Clarice Brooksbank
Wembley Philharmonic Society Conductor, Rae Jenkins
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader,Paul Beard Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert, Hall, London Part 1

Talk by Margaret Miller , who has recently visited Poland

Part 2

BERNARD HERRMANN talks to Robert Layton about this great American figure who combined the life of a business executive and a composer, and whose music often foreshadowed much later developments in both European and American music.

Fourth Suite:
La Piemontoise (Les Nations) played by the Jacobean Ensemble
Directed by Thurston Dart (harpsichord) on a gramophone record

Two programmes of field recordings collected in the U.S.A. by Paul Oliver
2: Walk a-while, Ride a-while
Including the voices of: J. B. Lenoir , Willie Thomas Mance Lipscombe
Black Ace (Babe Kyro Turner) Sam Lightnin '
Hopkins Edwin Pickens , Floyd Taylor Eddie Boyd
Little Brother Montgomery
Walter Davis , James Stump Johnson Robert Junior Lockwood Albert Sunnyland Slim
Georgia Talbot , Marion Oldham Produced by Anthony Smith