Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is actor Joe Melia , stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and star of many television productions including The Ghostbusters of East Finchley.
Educated in Leicester and Cambridge
- where his tutor was F R Leavis - he completed his National Service as a Russian translator with Dennis Potter and Michael Frayn , among others.
After stints in the long-running West End productions Irma la douce and Beyond the Fringe, he appeared in Peter Nichols ' award-winning Day in the Death of Joe Egg. His wide-ranging array of musical choices includes
Uszt's symphonic poem Les Préludes, works by Beethoven and Britten, an excerpt from the musical Guys and Dolls, Verdi's opera Falstaff, Wagner's magnificent
Gotterdammerung and the ravishing final scene of Strauss's Capriccio. Executive producer Wendy Thompson