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Anthony Burgess talks to David Frost, Stephen Hearts and David Mercer on a theme suggested by the opening of the first Festival of World Television at the National Film Theatre in London

Introduced by George MacBeth

John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Katharina Wolpe (piano)
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by John Carewe
George Malcolm (harpsichord)

Ordre No 3 in C minor...Couperin
La tenebreuse: Premiere courante; Seconde courante; La lugubre; Gavotte; Menuet; Les pelerines; Les laurentines; L'espagnolete; Les regrets; Les matelots provencales; La favorite; La lutine

Preghiere...Dallapiccola
(first performance in this country)

Piano Concerto...Leopold Spinner
(first performance in this country)

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by Randolph Quirk
'We need,' says Professor Quirk, 'to get things a little more into perspective by examining the extent to which our language is changing, the ways in which it is changing, and the grounds for thinking that the language is declining.'

Given before an Invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London.

Tickets may be obtained by applying to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

by Rhys Adrian
with Donald Wolfit as The Business Man
John Wood as The Applicant

(Second broadcast)

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