ELIZABETH SIMON soprano
ROSALYN TURECK piano
PAUL BEARD violin
RICHARD ADNEY flute
JOHN WOLFE oboe
ADOLF SCHERBAUM trumpet
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
First of three talks by Professor RANDOLPH QUIRK
The seventeenth-century trader sailing the Pacific invented with the help of the ' natives ' a lingo fit for doing business in: ' pidgin ' is a corrupt form of business.' Professor Quirk outlines the nature of this language and refers to the Australian Government's controversial decision to stick to pidgin for educating the people of the trusteeship territory of New Guinea.
Part 2
A poem for three voices by SYLVIA PLATH
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Soliloquies of three women in a maternity ward. Second broadcast
Piano Trio in E flat major Op. 1 No. played by the HUNGARIAN TRIO
Arpad Gerecz (violin) Vilmos Palotai (cello)
Georges Soichany (piano) on a gramophone record
Next Week in the Third
ROSTROPOVICH AND RICHTER play the Beethoven Cello Sonatas
From the Royal Festival Hall Saturday
SIEGFRIED
New production of Wagner's music-drama From Covent Garden Monday
THE PRIMAL SCENE, AS IT WERE ...
Nine studies in disloyalty by Henry Reed Tuesday
THE SILENT VILLAGE by Ernst Schnabel
Documentary about what really happened at Lidice Wednesday
THE PELICAN
Play by Strindberg Thursday