by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by CHARLOTTE and A. L. LLOYD
Songs composed by HANS-DIETER HOSALLA
Incidental music composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE with Siobhan McKenna as Joan Dark
Frank Pettingell
Beatrix Lehmann , Malcolm Hayes
In the Chicago of the late twenties a girl of the Black Straw Hats organisation, pained by the poverty and suffering of the workers who are buffeted by the inexplicable financial ups-and-downs of the meat markets, decides to' search out the mainsprings of prosperity and poverty.
CAST
Speaker, Catherine Dolan ; Commentator, Martin Starkie
Joan Dark , Siobhan McKenna : Paulus Snyder , Martha, and A girl (the Black Straw Hats). Charles Leno , Catherine Dolan , and Penelope Lee: Mulberry, a landlord, Derek Birch
Pierpont Mauler , meat king, Frank Pettingell ; Sullivan Slift ,his broker, Malcolm Hayes : Cridle, Graham, Meyers, and Lennox (meat packers), Geoffrey Wincott , Leslie Perrins , Rolf Lefebvre. and David Bird
Mri. Luckerniddle, a worker's wife, Beatrix Lehmann ; Gloomb, Michael Turner ; A waiter, Nigel Anthony ; Mrs. Swingurn Eithne Dunne; An apprentice, Jon Rollason ; A workers' leader, Gabriel Woolf
A detective, John Bennett
Songs by the cast with a section, of the Ambrosian. Singers
Music conducted by Humphrey Searle
The play edited for radio and produced by H. B. FORTUIN
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.10-9.20 app.) A record of movements from
Dance Suite (Edward Kiinneke ) played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer