Philip Carr gives some reminiscences of the poet and novelist
String Quartet No. 1 played by the Griller String Quartet:
Sidney'Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello)
' Canons of Giant Art'
Selections arranged and produced by-Terence Tiller
Readers : Anne Cullen
Derek Hart , Natalie Moya
To be repeated tomorrow
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by G. Adami and R. Simoni
English adaptation by R. H. Elkin
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor. Stanford Robinson
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser
Scene: Pekin in legendary times
Act 1
Outside the walls of the Imperial Palace
Talk by Professor A. M. Ramsey
The speaker discusses Dr. Wilhelm Vischer 's Das Chrisluszeugnis des Alien Testaments (the first volume of which has been translated by Dr. A. B. Crab -tree), and links it with other books that have appeared in recent years and with some of his own work on the unity of the Old and New Testaments.
Act 2
Scene 1: A pavilion in the Imperial Palace
Scene 2: The square outside the Imperial Palace
An appreciation by G. J. Whitrow
Edward Arthur Milne , F.R.S., Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, died in Dublin on September 21. His pupil Dr. G. J. Whitrow , of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, gives an appreciation of his work.
Act 3
The Palace Gardens, near Turandot's apartment
Another performance: December 4
Talk by Terence Prittie , Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany
Twelve Studies, Books 1 and 2 played by Monique Haas (piano)