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CUPID AND PSYCHE

Network Three
on Network Three

by Louis MacNeice with music by ANTONY HOPKINS with the augmented
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA and SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano) Conducted by THE COMPOSER
A new production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Second broadcast
The device of a story within a story is found in the so-called ' Milesian Tales' popular in the ancient Graeco-Roman world, out of which grew the first European novels. One of these was The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius.
Cupid and Psyche is a self-contained story told by a drunken hag in the robbers' cave where the hero of The Golden Ass was held prisoner.
' Persons from Porlock,' Louis MacNeice's last work for radio: January 26

Contributors

Music By:
Antony Hopkins
Piano:
Susan Bradshaw
Production By:
Christopher Holme
Unknown:
Lucius Apuleius.
Psyche:
Patricia Gallimore
Cupid:
Denys Hawthorne
Venus:
Patience Collier
Father:
Noel Howlett
Mother:
Gudrun Ure
First Sister:
Cécile Chevreau
Second sister:
Beth Boyd
Jupiter:
John Justin
Juno:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mercury:
Michael McClain
Pan:
Duncan McLntyre
Ceres:
Barbara Mitchell
Proserpina:
Hilda Schroder
Zephyr:
Douglas Hankin
Eagle:
Tim Seely
Narrator:
Joyce Carpenter
Source: Radio Times

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