6: Poseidon is Angry
RENFORD BAMBROUGH asks the question: 'How do we know that the Greek gods and goddesses do not exist? ' and adds a postscript to the ensuing discussion
Speakers:
FR. LAWRENCE BRIGHT , O.P.
THE REV. DAVID COX
DONALD MACKAY
Professor of Communication, University of Keele DONALD MACKINNON
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity.
University of Cambridge NINIAN SMART
H. G. Wood Professor of Theology,
University of Birmingham
JOHN WISDOM
Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Recorded informally at Dunford House, in Sussex
† Pierre MOLLET (baritone) with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Debussy
Le Promenoir des deux amants
Aupres- de cette grotte sombre
Crols mon conseil. chere Climene Je tremble en voyant ton visage
Duparc
L'invitation au voyage Chanson triste Phidyle
Debussy
Trois ballades de Francois Villon
Ballade de Villon a s'amye
Ballade que feit Villon a la requeste de sa mère pour prier
Nostre-Dame Ballade des femmes de Paris
An appreciation of Wilfred Owen
1893-1918 by PATRIC DICKINSON who narrates the programme The excerpts from
Owen's poetry and prose read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Others taking part: Derek Birch
Denys Hawthorne Carleton Hobbs Godfrey Kenton Denis McCarthy Lewis Stringer and Geoffrey Wincott Produced by JOE BURROUGHS A revised version of the programme first broadcast in 1953 A performance of Britten's War Requiem, in which the Latin texts from the Mass for the Dead and the ritual following it are interspersed with nine of Wilfred Owen 's war poems, will be broadcast from York Minster tomorrow evening.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (piano)
Schumann
Presto passionato, Op. 22
Traumerswirren, Op. 12 No. Arabesque, Op. 18 Toccata, Op. 7
Liszt
FunGrailles on a gramophone record