Piano Trio in E flat major (D.929) played by the Busch-Serkin Trio on a gramophone record
DRAPER HILL , cartoonist from Boston, Massachusetts, examines the caricaturist's obsession with personality, with reference to the work of Sir Max Beerbohm and to that of James Gill-ray, whose biography he is writing.
An exhibition of Cartoon and Caricature from Hogarth to HofTnung, organised by the Arts Council, is at present on view in London at the Royal Exchange.
: second broadcast
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis August Wenzinger (treble viol)
Marianne Majer. Hannelore Müller (treble and tenor viols)
Jan Crafoord (tenor viol) Johannes Koch (bass viol)
Pavan: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens The King of Denmarks Galliard The Earl of Essex his Galliard
Mr. Thomas Collier his Gailiard Mrs. Nichols Almand
Sir Henry Umptons Funeral Mr. Henry Noel his Galliard
Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard Mr. Burtons Galliard
Mr. John Langtons Pavan
Mr. Nicholas Griffith his Galliard Sir John Souch his Galliard Mr. Giles Hobie his Galliard
Mr. George Whitehead his Almand
La Foire d'Empoigne by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Lucienne Hill
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
with Malcolm Keen and Peter Bull
The first production in English of Anouith's most recent ironic comedy on Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and the Hundred Days.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by VAL GIELGUD
La Foire d'Empoigne - translated with audacity rather than absolute accuracy by the producer as Animal Grab - is the sixteenth of Jean Anouilh's plays to be presented by the BBC. With this work, the most recent of Anouilh's plays to have been performed with great success in Paris, a broadcast performance has again 'scooped' the English theatre.
An opera in three acts by Castelnuovo-Tedesco Text by Shakespeare translated into Italian and edited by the composer first broadcast in this country
Chorus and Orchestra of the MAGGIO MUSICALE OF Florence
Chorus-Master, Andrea Morosini Conducted by FRANCO CAPUANA
Recording of a performance broadcast in Italy: made available by courtesy of Radiotelevisione Italiana Acr 1: A square in Venice in front of Shylock's house
A series of four discussions about Britain today
4:SEEKING SOLUTIONS
Lord James of Rusholme Vice-Chaneellor of the University of York and Andrew Shonfield
Director of Studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs consider the opinions expressed in the first three discussions and look at remedies for the malaise from which some previous -speakers have seen Britain to be suffering
ACT 2: Inside Portia's house at Belmont
by M. I. Finley Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
Mr. Finley discusses the myth of Sparta's moral and military superiority to other Greek city-states. He suggests that the image of Sparta as ' a paradigm of social organisation and values' is a deceiving and dangerous one.
Acr 3 Scene I: A street in Venice
Scene 2: The Court of Justice
