The Story behind the Fantastic Symphony by Hector Berlioz

HARRIET SMITHSON
Scene : Outside a Paris Cafe. Time 1854
The Old Man with a Newspaper Harcourt Williams

CHARACTERS IN THE OLD MAN'S STORY

The Landlord Philip Wade
Hector Berlioz Ivan Samson
The Minister of Fine Arts...........................Cyril Nash
Mrs. Smithson.................................Florence Marks
Harriet Smithson.................................Joan Matheson
Charles Kemble....................................... George Ide
Franz Liszt Harold Reese
A Concierge Olive Walter
Narrator, Grenville Eves
At the piano, Alan Paul
The Cafe Orchestra (The Victor Olof Trio)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
Production by Gordon McConnel.
Tonight at 8.30