Relayed from the National Museum of Wales

National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)

(to 14.00)

Mr. H.E. Piggott

The Station Trio: Frank Thomas (Violin), Ronald Harding (Violoncello), Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte)
Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3
First and Second Movements

The last of the three Trios which make up Beethoven's Opus I is conspicuously bigger both in conception and in actual dimension than the other two, and at the very beginning of the first movement there is sounded a note of deeper seriousness than anything in them. It has, however, its moments of real brightness, and even of good spirits, too.

by Charles Dickens
Scenes from the novel arranged for broadcasting by Gilbert Heron

Scene I - The Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, 1743
The Trial of Evremonde
President of the Tribunal
Public Prosecutor (Fouquier Tinville)
Ernest Defarge, of the Faubourg St. Antoine
Therese Defarge, his wife
The Vengeance, a revolutionary virago
Dr. Manette, one-time prisoner in the Bastille
Lucy Manette, his daughter
Charles Evremonde, called Darnay
Sydney Carton, a ne'er-do-well Barrister
The Jury: "All determined Patriots and Good Citizens:-As a jury of Dogs empaneled to try the Deer"
The Court is filled with a large crowd of excited Revolutionaries

Scene II - A cell in the prison of the Conciergerie
The Freeing of Evremonde
Charles Evremonde
Sydney Carton
Barsad, the Spy Jailer

Scene III - A vaulted chamber in the Conciergerie. On the way to the Guillotine, Sydney Carton fulfils his promise to Lucy
Sydney Carton
Mimi, a seamstress condemned to death

Apart from the wonderful picture of Georgian London and Revolutionary Paris, this story shows primarily the love of two men for one woman: the one, Sydney Carton, a dissolute and careless ne'er-do-well, the other a French aristocrat, Evremonde, known as Charles Darnay

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