A programme designed to enable the listener to approach music without preconceptions. Although the works are not identified until after they have been heard, the programme is not intended as a guessing name. The object is to let the listener judge the quality of the music without previous knowledge.
On gramophone records.
The first of two programmes recorded in France by D. G. BRIDSON
The subjects covered by this first conversation include Lawrence Durrell 's poetry, his books on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, and Alexandria, and his preference for life near the Mediterranean.
Second broadcast
† EVELYN LEAR (soprano) with ALAN RICHARDSON (piano)
by ERSKINE CHILDERS
2: A Nation in Search of its Society
In the second part of his survey of contemporary Arab affairs, Mr. Childers discusses the peculiar frustrations of the Arab revolution: a far-flung artificially divided nation in staggered phases of social change, seeking viable political union, and in need of a new. truly indigenous system of representative government.
Leader. Lionel Bentley
Conductor, TREVOR HARVEY with ARCHIE CAMDEN (bassoon)
DAVID MASON (trumpet)
Overture for the enthronement of a bishop
Marc-Anfoine Charpentier
Duo concertante, for bassoon, trumpet, and chamber
A play by Arthur Adamov translated by DEREK PROUSE adapted for radio by Martin Esslin
Arthur Adamov's play, first produced in Paris in 1955, Is a parabie about what men live by. with Kenneth Haigh as Arthur Michael Caine as Victor
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
Second broadcast
Piano Quintet in F minor
Slayed by the eolian String Quartet with ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Second broadcast
