A literary portrait of the great French writer by ROBERT BALDICK Fellow of Pembroke College. Oxford
Readings in the original French by Antoine Bulpetre and Jean Topart
Extract from Ruy Blas taken from the Comedie Francaise production The part of Victor Hugo spoken by STEPHEN MURRAY
The part of Edmond de Goncourt spoken by CARLETON HOBBS
: second broadcast
Der Wein
Charlotte Boerner (soprano) Janssen Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Werner Janssen on a gramophone record
by Geoffrey Lewis
Fellow of St. Antony's College and Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Oxford
' Despite all appearances to the contrary,' says Dr. Lewis after a prolonged visit to Turkey. ' the military government there is doing its best to impose democracy on a people of whom at least a third do not want it.'
by Tamas Vasary
A talk illustrated at the harpsichord by Thurston Dart