BBC CHORUS with ALAN HARVERSON (organ) Conductor,
PETER GELLHORN Last of seven programmes
by Martin Green
The Lord Peter Wimsey stories of Dorothy L. Sayers remain as widely read today as they were between the wars. Dr. Green argues that this continuing popularity is due not to their merit as detective stories but rather to their appeal to and analysis of British snobbery.
(Second broadcast)
Sonata No. 6, in G major
Sonata No. 4, in F sharp major played by Georges ALEXANDROVITCH (piano)
by Zbigniew Herbert
Translation by PAUL MAYEWSKI arranged and produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Music composed and directed by ROBERTOGERHARD
This play by the distinguished Polish poet presents the imprisonment and death of Socrates with modern implications.
Carteton Hobbs as Socrates with Betty Hardy and Robert Eddison
Citizens and disciples
Lewis Wilson , Preston Lockwood Philip Cunningham Martin Starkie Second broadcast
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz
talks to DERYCK COOKEabout the musical world of Vienna in the first decades of the present century and recalls personal impressions of Mahler, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Berg
He discusses the Viennese concert repertory as well as his part in the foundation of the I.S.C.M. Second broadcast
L'Ascension played by Simon PRESTON organ of King's College Chapel. Cambridge on a gramophone record