A weekly review of the arts
This edition is devoted to The Theatre and includes Harold Clurman, the American producer, in conversation with Laurence Kitchin.
Paul Mayersberg on the work of Harold Pinter in relation to his new play The Collection
Introduced by George MacBeth
Metamorphosen
A study for 23 solo strings played by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor, Otto KIemperer on a gramophone record
by FRANCOIS VILLON
A selection translated by Norman Cameron
Readers:
Denis Goacher , Gladys Spencer Gladys Young , Norman Shelley Lewis Stringer
Introduced by D. G. Bridson
To be repeated on July 30
Norman Cameron 's translation of Le Grand Testament of Francois Villon was first broadcast in the Third Programme before its publication. Tonight's selection includes all the ballades which will be sung in Villon's French in the production of Ezra Pound's melodrama Le Testament tomorrow evening at 9.30.
Dumka Trio
Suzanne Rozsa (violin) Vivian Joseph (cello) Liza Fuchsova (piano)
A discussion on the medical and social implications of the Government Plan
Speakers :
THE PHYSICIAN in Psychological Medicine at a London Teaching Hospital
A PSYCHO-ANALYST who is Medical Director of a Hospital for Neurosis THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT of a Mental Hospital
An important feature of the Plan, which was announced in January, is a reduction by half, over the next fifteen years, in the present number of places in mental hospitals and provision for the treatment of mentally ill patients in general hospitals. The Minister of Health has said this will mean ' nothing less than the elimination of by far the greater number of this country's mental hospitals as they stand today.' : second broadcast