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by GEORGE ORWELL adapted for radio by Stuart Evans
3: A place where there is no darkness
Produced by David Lyttle
Books. Plays. Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
Stuart Evans
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Narrator:
Alan Wheatley
Winston Smith:
Gary Watson
Julia:
Diana Olsson
O'Brien:
Kevin Flood
Ampleforth:
James Thomason
Parsons:
Stephen Thorne
Officer:
Gordon Gardner

Flight of the Swallow by James McCallen
Any young man can go on so long not noticing things.... but only so long.... Then there's an explosion.
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
James McCallen
Produced By:
David A. Turner
Brian Martin:
Sam McCready
Mr Martin J:
G Devlin
Ruth:
Yvonne Adams
Tom Fleming J:
J Murphy
Fred Stallard:
John McBride
Mrs Martin:
Catherine: Gibson
Dennis Martin:
Charles Armstrong
Mrs Baillie:
Gertrude Russell
Mr Baillie:
Arthur Ross

from St. John's College,
Cambridge
Responses (Tomkins, Peterhouse version)
Psalm 68 (omitting vv. 13-23)
Lessons: Isaiah 54, vv. 1-14
St. Mark 5, vv. 22-43
Canticles (Watson in E)
Anthem: Cantantibus organis
(Peter Philips)
Hymn: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Tune, Lasst uns erfreuen)
Organist, GEORGE GUEST
Organ Student,
Stephen Cleobury

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Cleobury

A family magazine
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
The Sounds of Music:
Anne Catchpole talks to BRYAN FAIR-FAX about his forthcoming concert for young people and meets GEORGE CHISHOLM and EDWARD RUBACH , the two soloists
The Best of Both Worlds:
LEONARD CLARK explains why, because he is a countryman, he lives in London
The Exile (ii): James McNeish continues his conversation with DONALD MARSH about life on his island in the New Hebrides
Twice Born: MURIEL RUSSELL describes the unusual circumstances of her daughter's birth in India

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Talks:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
George Chisholm
Unknown:
Edward Rubach
Unknown:
Leonard Clark
Unknown:
James McNeish
Unknown:
Donald Marsh
Unknown:
Muriel Russell

An opera in four acts
Libretto, after PROSPER MÉRIMÉE by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC HALEVY
Music by Bizet sung in French
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers, cigarette girls, gypsies, smugglers
SALZBURG FESTIVAL CHAMBER CHOIR and CHILDREN'S CHORUS
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Walter Hagen Groll VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted and produced by Herbert von Karajan
Recording from the 1967 Salzburg Festival: made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
The action takes place in and around Seville about 1830
ACT 1: A square in Seville
ACT 2: The tavern of LillasPastia
8.46' INTERVAL
Piano music by Faur6: record
8.56* ACT 3
A desolate part of the mountains
ACT 4
Outside the bullring in Seville See page 50

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Unknown:
Ludovic Halevy
Produced By:
Herbert von Karajan
Morales, a corporal:
Robert Kerns (barilone)
Micaela, a country girl:
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Zuniga, a lieutenant:
Anton Diakov (bass)
Don José, a corporal:
Jon Vickers (tenor)
Carmen a gypsy:
Grace Bumbry (mezzo-Soprano)
Her friends::
Olivera Miljakovic (soprano)
Her friends::
Julia Hamari (mezzo-Soprano)
Escamillo, a toreador:
Justino Diaz (baritone)
Smugglers ::
John van Kesteren (tenor)
Smugglers ::
Milen Paunov (tenor)

Nikita Shubin by ALEXEI N.TOLSTOY translated by Beatrice Scott adapted for broadcasting Read by ALAN WHEATLEY
Produced by John Cardy
First of three Instalments
At last the revolution had come Young Nikita 's father was burning with enthusiasm. But revolutions can be very disillusioning things

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikita Shubin
Unknown:
Alexei N.Tolstoy
Translated By:
Beatrice Scott
Read By:
Alan Wheatley
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Young Nikita

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