About this programme

With Rob Cowan. Including the Essential CD of the Week: All Shall Be Well. Exultate Singers, conductor David Ogden. 9.30 The daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Adrian Boult. 10.30 More music chosen by this week's guest Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. 11.00 Rob's Essential Choice. Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky. Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo), Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov.