(to 11.00)
Emma Morgan: Hel Nythod Adur
(Hunting Birds' Nests)
(From Swansea)
by Stephen King-Hall
(Daventry National Programme)
Drama viewed from various angles
'...we only see Through crystal prisms in a falling rain.'
(I) In Elizabethan Days
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
Act II, Scene I (Part); Act IV, Scene 3 (Part); Act V, Scene 2
(2) In Ancient Greece
Extract from Hippolytus, by Euripides
(Translated by Gilbert Murray)
(3) In Tudor Times
Catherine Parr or Alexander's Horse
A Diminutive Drama by Maurice Baring
(4) In the Eighteenth Century
The School for Scandal (Act IV, Scene 3), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Woman is more and more establishing for herself an equality with Man, so that the term 'Weaker Vessel' is rapidly losing its significance, if, indeed, it is not lost already. In Facet No.5, we, therefore, turn our attention to those alleged 'good old days' when, so we are told, woman was woman, and did not know the delights of 'emancipation.' Her modern counterpart will be the subject of Facet No. 6.
Leader, Louis Levitus
(to 23.00)
