BBC Scottish Choral Society
BBC Scottish Orchestra Led by Granville Casey
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Has poverty been abolished in Britain, or are there still large groups of people who do not share in our increasing material prosperity ?
An enquiry by Dorothy Cole Wedderburn with contributions from
BARONESS WOOTTON OF ABINGER
RICHARD Titmuss
AUDREY HARVEY and the voices of many people who are living in poverty Produced by SASHA MOORSOM
: second broadcast
Contrast ' There is no poverty in Britain today; if people are poor it's their own fault' with ' There's still a lot of poverty today, only.it's hidden; people are too complacent. They think they've never had it so good-they don't notice the poor.' Those are two conflicting opinions about contemporary Britain. Which of them more nearly reflects the truth?
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Maurice Cole (piano)
English String Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello) Part 1
J. P. Stern Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge discusses the book by Ian Gregor and Brian Nicholas published earlier this year
The authors examine the novel for the way it relates the story a novelist tells to the moral he points
Part 2
Recording of the THURSDAY Invitation CONCERT of October 12, 1961 given in the Guildhall, Cambridge
Second of two illustrated talks by John Levy
In this programme he discusses the part played by music in village life and introduces recordings of exorcist rites and working songs.
Partita No. 2, In C minor played by Wanda Landowska harpsichord on a gramophone record