BBC CHORUS
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN
Three Elegies
Richard Rodney Bennett
Call for the robin redbreast
Hark! now everything is still All the flowers of the spring
Three programmes by A. Alvarez
2: The Intellectuals and Society
Continuing his report on the literary and artistic climate in America today, Mr. Alvarez turns from the Kennedy era. the subject of his first programme, to the U.S.A. as ' the only country in the world which is squarely, uncompromisingly in the twentieth century.'
Voices heard include those of Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Zero Mostel, and R.P. Blackmur.
Produced by Christopher HOLME
Second broadcast
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1
A critique of the recent preoccupation with violence in the arts by LAURENCE KITCHIN
Part 2
talks about
Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship
Dr. Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, speaks on the loss of personal responsibility under a totalitarian regime, and how to regain the former dignity of man.
by Angela Rodaway
An investigation into the events which brought about a woman's suicide.
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Other parts played by George Merritt , David Valla
Elizabeth Morgan , Peggy Butt Dorit Welles and members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Special sounds by the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Music composed by ANGELA ROOAWAY and sung by the choir of HONOR OAK GIRLS SCHOOL, PECKHAM
Directed by MRS. CHRISTINE RICHARDS
Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Second broadcast
BAMBERG PIANO Quartet
Wilhelm Klepper (violin)
Herbert Blendinger (viola) Hans Metzer (cello)
Ernst Groschel (piano)