by DAVID JONES adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas CLEVERDON who introduces the programme.
1: Rite and Fore-Time
II: Middle-Sea and Lear-Sea
III: Angle-Land IV: Redriff
V: The Lady of the Pool
VI: Keel, Ram, Stauros
VII: Mabinog's Liturgy
VIII: Sher Thursday and Venus
Day
The English Voices:
Valentine Dyall , Carleton Hobbs Frank Duncan
James McKechnie The Welsh Voices:
Dylan Thomas , Rachel Thomas Sulwen Morgan. Gwenllian Owen with a section of the SCHOLA POLYPHONICA director HENRY WASHINGTON THE DELLER CONSORT THE LOOE SINGERS
Though still comparatively unknown, The Anathemata is increasingly recognised as one of the major poetic works of the century. Within the framework of the Mass, and thus of the Crucifixion, it reflects the whole inheritance of our Western civilisation, with its deposits from pre-history, from Greece and Rome, from Welsh and English mythology, and above all from the Christian tradition: now threatened by the breakdown of a culture for which signs and symbols are no longer valid.
(First broadcast on 5 May 1953)