Music-drama in three acts by RICHARD WAGNER sung in German on gramophone records
Chorus of the GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Georg Solti
AcT 1: On board Marke's ship
Six talks by E. H. Carr
Fellow of Trinity College. Cambridge
1: The Historian and his Facts
These talks are a broadcast version of Professor Carr's Trevelyan Lectures given last year. In the first he deals with history as a process of interaction -a dialogue between the historian in the present and the facts of the past. Before you study history, says Professor Carr, study the historian.
: second broadcast
Society and the Individual: Jan. 28
A(T 2: Cornwall: the garden of Marke's castle
by David Pears
Student of Christ Church, Oxford
A. 1. Melden's book, Free Action, attacks the question of free will from a new angle. It owes a good deal to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. David Pears considers how far he has succeeded in illuminating an obscure and vexed problem.
introduces a selection of poems he has enjoyed Readers:
Hugh Dickson and Valentine Dyall
Act 3: Kareol. Brittany: the court-yard of Tristan's half-ruined castle
by D. Mack Smith
Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge
This well-entrenched crime organisation is a characteristic Sicilian product. Mr. Mack Smith discusses the social and historic reasons for its existence and the part it plays in the politics of the island.
: second broadcast