Listings
: THE ALLITERATIVE TRADITION IN ENGLISH VERSE
First of two talks by Elizabeth ZeemanFellow of Girton College, Cambridge with readings by Gary Watson from
' The Seafarer '
'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and ' Piers Plowman '
Contributors
: CHORAL CONCERT
Choir of Salisbury CathedralMaster of the Choristers,
Douglas Guest
Christopher Dearnley (organ)
The Eton Choir Book, a large and beautifully illuminated manuscript in Eton College Library, is the oldest extant collection of early Tudor music, consisting of compositions by English composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Contributors
: LIBERTY COMES TO KRAHWINKEL'
Translated and freely adapted by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch from Johann Nestroy 's farce'Freiheit in Krähwinkel'
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Patrick Westwood , Hamilton Dyce
John Gabriel , andFrank Tickle
Singers:
Robert Rietty and Alan Reid with the BBC Chorus
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston directed by Patrick Savill
Production by Norman Wright
Krahwinkel is a traditional fools' town —a German equivalent of our Gotham.
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: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GOVERNMENT
2-The Role of the Myth byEly DevonsProfessor of Economics in the University of Manchester
In the first of these talks Professor S. E. Finer suggested that we should recognise the indispensable role played by pressure groups in modern society. Professor Devons argues that such myths as that of ministerial responsibility are none the less valuable.
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: FRENCH PIANO MUSIC
played by Eric ParkinOndine; Le gibet;
The fourth of six recitals of French piano music
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: 'IN MEMORIAM JAMES JOYCE '
by Hugh MacDiarmidA reading of selected passage*
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