Piano Trio (D.939)
ADOLF BUSCH (violin)
HERMANN BUSCH (cello) RUDOLF SERKIN (piano) on a gramophone record
A series of four programmes
Professor Frank Kermode moves on to what he calls the 'more conservative' disciplines - those which depend more on a cumulative body of knowledge or practice. He presents conversations with H.W.R. Wade, Professor of English Law, University of Oxford; Austin Farrer theologian and Warden of Keble College, Oxford; A.B. Pippard, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge; J.M. Cameron, Professor of Philosophy, University of Leeds
(Second broadcast)
by Slawomir Mrozek translated from the Polish and adapted by NICHOLAS BETHELL with Geoffrey Keen , Hugh Burden
Thomas Heathcote
A dedicated Chief of Police finds that his advancement is in inverse proportion to his efficiency. The more crimes there are, the more the police are needed. If rebellion is stamped out his organisation will become redundant. What is he to do?
Chief of Police GEOFFREY KEEN
The Prisoner Hugh BURDEN
The Police Sergeant
THOMAS HEATHCOTE
His Wife JOAN LINDSAY
The General DERYCK GUYLER A Policeman John BAKER
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Second broadcast
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Norman Nelson
Conductor.
Antal Dorati
Part 1
Given before an Invited audience In BBC Studio 1, Malda Vale, London. Applications for tickets for future concerts. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed]. See page 7
Peter Calvocoressi gives the third of his four contributions to this series of fortnightly commentaries on a theme suggested by events of the previous two weeks.
Next talk: April 4
Part 2
HENRY RAYNOR discusses the social background of the Romantic composer
He examines the effect of the drying-up of court patronage, the development of public concert-giving societies, and the growth of cheap music-publishing on the relationship between the composer and society.
Second broadcast followed by an Interlude at 10.50