An Academic Fantasy by Graham Sutton
Scene: Oxford. Anno Domini MDCCXXX
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An Academic Fantasy by Graham Sutton
Scene: Oxford. Anno Domini MDCCXXX
(' A Life for the Tsar)
Acts 1 and 2
by George Woodcock
Mr. Woodcock is Assistant General
Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and lecturer on contemporary
Trade Unionism at the London School of Economics. He is talking on the problem of the relation of traditional
British Trade Union attitudes and organisation to the Government in a fully socialised State. What would be the future of our Trade Unions in a State where the Government was in complete control of industry?
Act 3
(1865-1947)
John Connell gives an appreciation of the Irish novelist, whose death was recently announced
Act 4 and Epilogue
A serial survey of some contemporary verse-1
The Poet: Stephen Spender
The Critic : Roy Fuller
The readers: Godfrey Kenton and Bernard Miles
A sequence of four programmes is devoted to each Poet and Critic. The first comprises a number of poems selected by the Critic as an introduction. In the second the Critic expresses his personal attitude to poetry and his appreciation of the Poet. In the third, the Poet replies.
The fourth programme, introduced also by the Critic, consists of further examples of the Poet's work. which they have chosen in collaboration
Presented by E. J. King Bull
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