by Dixo BIZZATI
Translated and adapted by Henry Reed with Stephen Murray and Nigel Davenport
Giovanni Corte , a very lion of a man, gets caught up in the machinery of medicine, hospitals, ageing-death: it is a satire on a mid-twentieth century health service but also on a deeper level a modern morality play on the death of a rich man.
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Other parts played by John Graham , Stanley Lebor , Philip Morant , and members of the cast
Special effects by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Martin Esslin
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL
Bkalkottas: Five of his Ten Sketches for Strings, played by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra conducted by Szymon Goldberg : on a record