by ITALO SVEVO translated by G. H. McWilliam with Maxine Audley , Michael Gough Paul Daneman , Beatrix Lehmann
Production by MARTIN ESSLIN
: second broadcast
Italo Svevo (1861-1928), the Triestine writer who was James Joyce 's friend, has long been acknowledged as one of the great novelists of our century. But until the publication of a volume of his plays two years ago it had not been realised that he was also passionately interested in the theatre. A Husband which Svevo wrote at the turn of the century is a dark comedy of marital love, jealousy, and fidelity.
Maxine Audley and Paul Daneman broadcast by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.25-9.35 app.)
Donizetti
First movement of his
String Quartet No. 9. in D minor played by the Quartetto della Scala on a gramophone record