by John Gay in a musical version realised from the original airs by Benjamin Britten
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Repetiteur, Robert Keys Producer, Basil Coleman
(Continued in next column)
Scene: The Great Room at St. Giles' where the beggars enact their operas
Act 1
7.40 app. The Running Patterer
An interview by Henry Mayhew adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from ' London Labour and the London Poor' with Ernest Jay and Carleton Hobbs
7.50 app. Act 2
8.40 app. The Watercress Girl
An interview by Henry Mayhew with Diana Maddox and Carleton Hobbs
8.50 app. Act 3
(Glenice Halliday broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Otakar Kraus , of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Another performance: December 8