Peter Rabbit's Friends: Peter's Visitor
Adapted and designed by Sam Williams for television from the Thornton Burgess 'Bedtime Story Books', and told by Donald Bisset.

5.15 Children's Newsreel

5.30-6.0 Play the Game
Introduced by Robert MacDermot with Janette Scott, Glenda Davies, Victoria Smith Wright, Jennifer Gay, Jeremy Spenser, Robin Dowell, Robert Dickens, John Charlesworth.
Score Keeper, Brenda Bancroft

Richard Dimbleby recalls events from last week's Television Newsreels.

A comic opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari from the Goldoni play.
English version by Edward J. Dent.

The action of the opera takes place in eighteenth-century Venice.

In eighteenth-century Venice, the well-to-do middle-class merchants - according to the play on which the opera is based - were inclined to be boorish. They allowed their women every comfort, but kept them under lock and key. Consequently, when old Lunardo arranged for his daughter Lucieta to marry Filipeto, the son of his friend Maurizio, it was understood that the young couple were not to meet until the day of the wedding. The women-folk, however, were of a different opinion, and arranged a clandestine meeting between the lovers. This led to discovery and disaster, but thanks to the timely intervention of Felice, the only one of the wives who refused to submit to her husband, the fathers learned their lesson and all ended happily.

(Edmund Donlevy and Harold Blackburn appear by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
(Second performance on Thursday at 8.30 p.m.)
(Dennis Arundell writes on page 42)

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