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STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' How the Geese Saved Rome' (390 B.C.). Script by Hilary Pym
2.25 SENIOR ENGLISH 1. ' African
Boy': a story of life today in a mining district of Southern Rhodesia, based on the book by Grace Huxtable. Part 1. Script by Rhoda Power
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS
Mozart and ' The Magic Flute': a dramatised programme by Roger Fiske

Contributors

Script By:
Hilary Pym
Book By:
Grace Huxtable.
Programme By:
Roger Fiske

Act 1 of Beethoven's opera
Libretto by Sonnleithner
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Matthews )
Conductor, Karl Rankl
The action takes place at a prison outside Madrid in the eighteenth century
Scene 1: A room in the gaoler's house Scene 2: The inner courtyard of the prison

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Thomas Matthews
Conductor:
Karl Rankl
Jacquino, porter at the prison:
Dennis Stephenson
Marzellina daughter of Rocco:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Rocco head gaoler:
Howell Glynne
Leonora, wife of Florestan, disguised under the name of Fidelio:
Kirsten Flagstad
Don Pizarro, Governor of the State Prison:
Tom Williams
First prisoner:
Charles Craig
Second prisoner:
Charles Morris

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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