Talk by SIR LLEWELLYN WOODWARD until recently
Professor of History at Oxford and Princeton
Great battles are not always the decisive events they are taken to be: the changes most important for the future often pass unnoticed by contemporaries. Sir Llewellyn Woodward talks about examples of failure to see the wood for the trees and asks whether in our generation, although we arc more conscious of the fact of change, we are likely to show any more perspicacity than our ancestors in recognising the turning points that occur before our eyes. Second broadcast
Operatic Recital
GALlNA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
PETER GLOSSOP (baritone)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
Part 1
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Ma qual mai (Act 1) Donna Anna and Don Ottavio Deh vieni alle finestre (Act 2)
Fin ch'han dal vino (Act 1) Don Giovanni
Dalla sua pace (Act 1) Don Ottavio
Or sai chi l'onore (Act 1) Donna Anna
Verdi: Aida
Ciel! mio padre! (Act 3) Aida and Amonasro
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
by A CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST
In his recent Reith Lectures, Professor Carstairs said: 'We shall be freed from fear of each other only when we recognise, and abate, our own destructive impulses.' But what is this evil within ourselves that we have to come to terms with?
Operatic Recital
Part 2
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Letter Scene (Act 1 scene 2)
Tatiana
Aria (Act 1 scene 3)
Onegin Aria (Act 2 scene 2)
Lensky
Closing Scene (Act 3 scene 2)
Onegin and Tatiana
The 1855 text of Tennyson's monodrama
Second of three readings by Anthony Jacobs Produced by GEORGE MACBETH
Last reading: Friday at 10.30
Quintet in G major, Op 111 played by the ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello) with Cecil Aronowitz (viola) The broadcast of October 27 in the Home Service
