Three plays selected and introduced by Sir Huw Wheldon
SIR HUW WHELDON presents his selection of productions from the range of drama made by the BBC in its partnership with the Open University -' memorable moments' he calls them. Sir Huw introduces the programmes from the studio in Alexandra Palace where these drama productions for the Open University students were made - and which was the studio where BBC television began in 1936. The end of the second act of Waiting for Godot by SAMUEL BECKETT
Max Wall and Leo McKern as the two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for Godot ...
Producer Richard CALLANAN
8.0 The Grand Inquisitor by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY adapted by JEREMY BROOKE and KITTY HUNTER BLAIR
John Gielgud plays the Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's fable in the novel The Brothers Karamazov. The Inquisitor is faced by a prisoner who silently challenges him ...
ProducerRichard ARGENT
8.30 The main action of the second act of Six Characters in Search of An Author by LUIGI PIRANDELLO
Translated by FREDERICK MAY
Producer JOHN SELWYN GILBERT
A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY production