played by the Drolc String Quartet Eduard Drolc (violin) Heinz Bottger (violin)
Siegbert Ueberschaer (viola) Heinz Majowski (cello)
Recorded from a concert given during the Edinburgh Festival on August 23, 1961, in the Freemasons' Hall.
Second of four programmes including Schoenberg's String Quartets
String Quartet in D major (1897): Home Service: February 13
String Quartets Nos. 2 and 4:

A Fragment of Autobiography by EDA LORD adapted from her book published last spring and recalling a childhood spent in the American west and south-west fifty years ago with Hilda Kriseman
Marcella Spencer , Mavis Villiers Robert Ayres and Marvin Kane
Production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME

BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
PART 1
The Vaughan Williams work can be heard again on Sunday at 2.30 (Home)
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History and Histrionics
J. P. Stern Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge believes that to see Vienna as an amalgam of lassitude and charm is not to see the whole picture

PART 2

First part of a selection made and introduced by Jacques Prevert
Le Petit Cordonnier read by Suzanne Flon
Three poems by , Guillaume Apollinaire read by Germaine Montero Apollinaire translations by Oliver Bernard read by Marius Goring
Presented by Rayner Heppenstall
Two programmes devoted to a selection by Jacques Prevert will be followed by further programmes devoted to a selection by Jean Cocteau.

Missa Pange lingua Ave Maria
Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
From Brompton Oratory, London

before the French Revolution?
A book by Pierre Goubert , Beauvais et les Beauvaisis de 1600 a 1730, has been published recently in France. PETER LASLETT reviews this book in the light of the work he is doing on English Society and social statistics of the same period.
: second broadcast