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A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Bach's Motets by BASIL LAM
Musical Profile: Rudolf Kempe by FELIX APRAHAMIAN
Music in the Twentieth Century: book review by ROBERT HENDERSON
Walking Encyclopedia, by SIDNEY HARRISON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Rudolf Kempe
Unknown:
Felix Aprahamian
Review By:
Robert Henderson
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison

Opera in five acts by Verdi Libretto by MÉRY and DU LOCLE after Schiller Sung in Italian Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus Master. Douglas Robinson
COVENT GARDEN Orchestra Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Act 1
1.20* Act 2
2.20' Act 3

Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish Throne - BRUNO PREVEDl (tenor)
Tebaldo, page to the Queen - ELIZABETH ROBSON (soprano)
Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain - GWYNETH JONES (soprano)
Count Lerma - JOHN DOBSON (tenor)
Rodrigo Marquis of Posa - PETER GLOSSOP (baritone)
The Princess Eboli, lady-in- waiting to the Queen - RITA GORR (mezzo-soprano)
Philip II King of Spain - BORIS CHRISTOFF (bass)
The royal herald - RONALD LEWIS (tenor)
A voice from heaven - ROXOLANA ROSLAK (soprano)
The Grand Inquisitor - DAVID WARD (bass)
A monk - MICHAEL LANGDON (bass)
Principal Deputy - ERIC GARRETT (bass)
Principal Deputy - DENNIS WICKS (bass)

Contributors

Chorus Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
Edward Downes

by Christopher Marlowe with The troublesome raigne and lamentable death- of Edward the Second. King of England: with the traBicall fall of proud Mortimer and also the life and death of Peirs Gaveston. the great Earle of Cornewall and mighty favourite of King Edward the Second
Music by CARL DAVIS
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Second broadcast
John Humphry Is in ' Lady Winder-mere's Fan' at the Phoenix Theatre. London
DURING THE INTERVAL (6.55*-7.5*)
Music by Orlando Gibbons played by THURSTON DART (harpsichord) gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Unknown:
Peirs Gaveston.
Music By:
Carl Davis
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Unknown:
John Humphry
Music By:
Orlando Gibbons
Played By:
Thurston Dart
King Edward:
Alec McCowen
The Younger Mortimer:
David Buck
Gaveston:
Ian McKellen
The Queen:
Marjorie Westbury
Chronicler:
Noel Howlett
Gaveston:
Ian Mc Kellen
King Edward II:
Alec McCowen
Earl of Lancaster:
John Justin
Elder Mortimer:
George Hagan
Younger Mortimer:
David Buck
Edmund, Earl of Kent:
John Rve
Earl of Warwick:
John Westbrook
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Rolf Lefebvre
Queen Isabella:
Marjorie Westbury
Earl of Pembroke:
Trevor Martin
Baldock:
Denys Blakelock
Younger Spencer:
David Spenser
Niece to Edward II:
Sheila Grant
Elder Spencer:
James Thomason
Earl of Arundel:
John Humphry
Prince Edward:
Glyn Dearman
Rice Ap Howel:
Trevor Martin
Earl of Leicester:
William Eedle
Sir William Trussel -:
Alan Dudley
Matrevis:
Anthony Jackson
Gurney:
Brian Hewlett
Lightborn:
Rolf Lefebvre

The last in a group of three programmes

In this conversation Judith Merrill, Editor of the American anthology The Best of Sci-Fi and Michael Moorcock, Editor of the British magazine New Worlds discuss with George Macbeth some differences between science fiction as currently written in England and the United States

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Merrill
Unknown:
Michael Moorcock
Unknown:
George Macbeth

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared NORMAN FEASEY talks about the role of Carmen in Bizet's opera, as recorded by Victoria de los Angeles, Emma Calve Maria Callas , Leontyne Price, Regina Resnik , Conchita Super-via, and others
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Talks:
Norman Feasey
Unknown:
Emma Calve
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
Regina Resnik

Network Three

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