Talk by Sarah Gainham
Correspondent of The Spectator in Bonn
The contrast in agricultural prosperity between West and East Europe is likely to become extreme now that the E.E.C. has evolved a co-ordinated Policy for the future. Miss Gainham foresees policy changes in the East European satellite countries in agriculture-and in industry also in order to help Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and perhaps Poland to resist the attractions of the Common Market.
Recorded for the BBC in Bonn by Westdeutscher Rundfunk
piano
Beethoven
Thirty-two Variations in C minor on a gramophone record
"While I still breathe and while I still move I am inseparably bound to that immense procession of which I am a part, and the numberless faces ot the numberless dead are really my forerunners. They journeyed away before me on another railway route.'
A short story by MlROSLAV KRLEZA
Translated from the Croatian and arranged for broadcasting by Dorian Cooke
Read by Kenneth Griffith Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Michael BAKEWELL
Miroslav Krleza was born in Zagreb in 1893. Poet, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist, critic, and satirist, he has for many years been regarded as Yugoslavia's most distinguished man or letters. The Cricket Under the Cascade was written in the mid nineteen-thirties.
The Basil Lam Ensemble Patrick Hailing (violin) Peter Halling (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)
A nionthlv programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
Roger Fiske talks about the Enigma Variations as recorded by _ Beecham, Boult, Monteux. Toscanmi, and Elgar himself