An opera in three acts by DENIS APIVOR
Libretto by Montague Slater based on the play by F. Garcia Lorca
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Led by Arthur Leavins
Conducted by SIR EUGRNR GOOSSENS Producer, Dennis Arundell
The action takes place in a village in Southern Spain Act 1
Scene 1: In Juan's house on a summer evening
Scene 2: A terraced olive-grove
by Richard Gregory
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Cambridge
Suppose a man born blind, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal. Suppose them now placed on a table, and the blind man made to see. Query, whether, by his sight alone, he could now tell which was which.
Richard Gregory and Jean Wallace fecently conducted experiments which provide an answer to this famous philosophical question.
Act 2
Scene 1: Beside a fast-flowing mountain stream
Scene 2: Juan's house
A monologue by Robert BROWNING
Read by Marius Goring
This dramatic monologue was first published in Men and Women in 1855 : second broadcast
Scene 1: The house of Dolores at dawn
Scene 2: Outside a hermitage, high in the mountains
(BBC recording: second broadcast)
(Johanna Peters broadcasts by permission of Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
A broadcast version of six Ford Lectures delivered
In the University of Oxford by Christopher Hill
Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford
1: London Science
Mr. Hill discusses the importance of popular science at the beginning of the 17th century, and the importance of Gresham College.
Next lecture: May 28
Recordings of the rejected and their helpers
Introduced by PHILIP O'CONNOR
It is generally understood that the problem of vagrancy resolves itself into one of rehabilitation; but how justified are the assumptions that
1. the society of self-respecting employees is totally superior, and 2. that vagrants wish to be rehabilitated into it?
What self, in fact, merits respect? At the tail end of a religious tradition vagrants may still unconsciously pose a basically ethical question.
Produced by DAVID THOMSON
To be repeated on June 14 tallowed by an interlude at 9.56
played by Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
by David Jones painter and poet
David Jones draws and illustrates the distinction between efficiency and meaning. He believes that technical efficiency is dangerous because it drives art and religion out of our minds.
: second broadcast
