A weekly review of the arts with interviews and discussions
Introduced by Anthony Thwaite This edition includes
Sidney Goodsir Smith in a recorded conversation with Anthony Thwaite about poetry in Lallans
John Bowen on a new ballet, Jabez and the Devil, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
played by Flor Peeters at the organ of St. Michael's, Zwolle
Credo in unum Deum (Scheidt)
Chorale Prelude: War' Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (Hanff)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
(Tunder) on a gramophone record
A radio play by DIETER WELLERSHOFF translated from the German by Martina Mayme
In this Horspiel, widely acclaimed in Germany, Dieter Wellershoff describes through a series of interior monologues a bitter crisis in the mutual relations of a man and his mistress. with Hugh Burden as The Man and Martina Mayne as The Woman
Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
BBC Nortlhern Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
by John Hale of Jesus College, Oxford
The speaker argues that, during the Renaissance, Englishmen on the whole were not eager to fight, and the Government used the pulpit to stir them up. Some preachers were so enthusiastic about the war that they wrote military books based on the Bible.
