Liza Fuchsova and Paul Hamburger
A work for radio by H. A. L. CRAIG
On September 14, 1607, a frightened tittle ship sailed from Lough Swilly , carrying into exile the Earls of Tyrone and Tirconnell, the O'Neill and the O'Donnell. The flight of the Earls was the visible fall of Gaelic Ireland. and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company with Enid Simon (harp) The songs set by Tristram Cary and Dominic Behan
Production by DouGLAS CLEVERDON
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Alfred Hallett (tenor) John Noble (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
PART 1
Three talks by Peter Laslett
Lecturer in History in the University of Cambridge 2: The Solid Middle Class
In this talk Mr. Laslett discusses the amazingly small, unhomogeneous character of the so-called middle class throughout the century. He believes that this solid middle class turns out to be illusory.
The second of three talks
PART 2
An illustrated talk by Thurston Dart in which he discusses the originality of the keyboard style of this seventeenth-century German master, and plays some of his music.
Quartet in D minor (D.810) (Death and the Maiden) played by the Benthien String Quartet Ulrich Benthien (violin)
Rudolf-Maria Miiller (violin) Martin Ledig (viola)
Wolfram Hentschel (cello)
Recorded at a concert given before members of the Wye College Music Club at Swanley Hall. Withersdane, Kent, on March 5, 1961
by J. P. Corbett
During a recent visit to Eastern Germany Mr. Corbett, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Sussex, spent many hours in discussion with philosophers and social theorists. He found that they combined a flexibility of thought with a conviction and determination which must, he feels, have a decisive influence on the future of Germany.
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