7.0 Exiles by James Joyce. Harold Pinter's Mermaid Theatre production re-created for radio.
James Joyce , who was born in 1882. left Dublin with Nora Barnacle in 1904. They lived in Trieste until 1915. They had two children, a boy and a girl. Exiles was published in Paris in 1918 four years before Ulysses. Joyce did not see the play performed.
Cast in order of speaking:
The play takes place at Merrion and Ranelagh, two suburbs of Dublin.
Producer Guy Vaesen
(John Wood is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Radio Times, People: page 4)
9.0 Portrait of Matyas Seiber (1905-1960)
The final programme in the series highlihting this neglected composer's work. including settings of James Joyce
Three fragments from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: PETER PEARS (tenor) JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
DORIAN SINGERS, MELOS ENSEMBLE conducted by THE COMPOSER (gramophone record)
Ballet: The Invitation (first broadcast performance)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Cantata: Ulysses ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) BBC CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
(David Atherton broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
followed by an interlude