Records
More about recordings. One night last week, the whole of the Third Programme—concerts, a play, a music drama, a talk on Goethe, a short story, song cycles and so on—came to us......
Music
ON Saturday evening the yearnings of many a Central European heart were fulfilled • for Bruno Walter was conducting Mahler at the Albert Hall. 6..ertainly the performance must......
Radio
ONE of the early autumn successes on the lighter side has been We Beg To Differ. It is based on the verifiable assumption that all men and all women like to gossip about men and......
Unkindest Cuts The Light Programme's Week Of Drama Seems To
me to have gone; off at half-cock. One Wilde, one Barrie one-act, one adaptation of an' R. C. Sherriff novel and one thriller—this is really not very ambitious, nothing surely......
Gramophone Notes
THE majority of recent records are orchestral, and there arc some distinguished recordings among them. The following are issued by H.M.V.:—Sibelius' Seventh Symphony is played......
Comments On Circumnavigation
Now that Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas is back from his Round the World in Eight Days journey, contrasted comments might be valuable : From the Spectator of September 23rd, 1949: "......
To Brighton In Four Minutes Another Journey—on...
staggering. They set up a camera in the driver's cab of a Victoria-Brighton train ; started the camera, as the train left, at high speed ; and filmed the entire fifty-odd mile......