by Tobias Smollett
adapted for radio and produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
with Norman Shelley, John Graham and Peter Claughton
with music taken from a record of the eight Symphonies of William Boyce played by I SOLISTI DI ZAGREB To be repeated on October 23
DURING THE INTERVAL (8.55'-9.5*) I A record of Leclair's Trio- I Sonata in D major played by Maxence Larrieu (flute). Bernard Fonteny (cello), and Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (harpsichord)

North Britain and nearly the whole of the Scottish section will not, I hope, be missed. Then the freedom of radio allows one greatly to heighten the irony of the letter form by rapid cross-cutting, while the splendid prose and gorgeous music-hall jokes, shaped as they are to each of the writers in turn, acquire a new dimension from being spoken in character.
Finally the sense of communication with the ' age of reason,' with its coarseness, humanity, and unexpected prejudices (animadversions on York Minster for instance), becomes, 1 hope, a direct and enriching experience rather than an academic exercise.
HALLAM TENNYSON
HUMPHRY CLINKER
Humphry Clinker was written in 1770 when Smollett was dying in Italy: no writer ever left a more genial testament nor showed such an extraordinary fecundity of wit and wisdom in the face of death. The novel far surpasses his previous work: even the conventional form of 'epistolary' fiction and the unoriginal plot of a journey round Britain are both used with a new skill. Th