SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby. A request programme chosen by schools from songs learnt during the term
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 'The End of Prehistoric Britain.'
Script by Jacquetta Hawkes.
One of the greatest of the British kings of the pre-Roman Iron Age was Cunobelin, better known as Cymbeline from Shakespeare's incorrect version of his name. His capital, Camulodunum (just outside modern Colchester), has recently been excavated, and the results of this 'dig' will be used to reconstruct the life of a settlement which, while still belonging to the prehistoric past, was being strongly influenced by civilisation. The Emperor Claudius came to Cumulodunum in person after his defeat of Cunobelin's son Caradoc (Caractacus) in A.D. 43. Twenty-eight years later Queen Boudicca (Boadicca) there led her rebel forces against the Roman colonists
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. L'histoire de 'Carmen' racontee pour la radio par Francois Richez et illustree par des extraits musicaux tires de l'opera de Bizet