at Manchester
THEA KING (clarinet)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Part 1

Fiction and Reality in the work of Miguel de Unamuno by GERAINT V. JONES
Both a tragic and a comic sense of life are found in Unamuno's fiction. These were for him the tokens of ' authentic living,' of the dream that is more real than life itself. But who is dreaming? May it not be that, like the creative writer, God creates the world by dreaming it?
Second broadcast

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester
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Robert Simpson 's Second Symphony: November 9

by HAROLD TRUSCOTT
The fourth of six illustrated talks by Harold Truscott in which he analyses and discusses the late Quartets In this programme he talks about the String Quartet in B flat major. Op. 130.
Op. 131: November 7

by William Shakespeare with Music composed by JOHN BUCKLAND
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN
Continued in next column
Grecian Commanders:
Other parts plaved by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Second broadcast
Richard Leech Is In ' The Right Honourable Gentleman at Her Majesty's Theatre. London
DURING THE INTERVAL: 9.5-9.15*
A record of the Prelude and Scherzo. Op 11 by Shostakovich played by the LONDON SOLOISTS' ENSEMBLE led by NICHOLAS Roth

Three Studies, Op. 18
Improvisations on Hungarian folk songs, Op 20 played by CHARLES ROSEN (piano, on a gramophone record