by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT translated by Robert Baldick with Stephen Murray and Jill Bennett
Written for the Comedie Francaise during the German Occupation, Queen in Death is in part a study of the uses and abuses of power (which, fortunately for the author, was completely misunderstood by the Gestapo), but also a study of the ambiguity and frailty of human nature when confronted by a conflict of good and evil. The action is set in Portugal in a Renaissance period.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by Charles Lefeaux
: second broadcast
DURING the INTERVAL (9.15-9.25 app.) Two movements from Respighi's First Suite of Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute played by Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Antal Dorati on a gramophone record