Including ' How to Make Notes' and ' How to Listen to Lectures '; with trips through Shakespeare-land hints on dramatic criticism, and How to Write Shakespeare's Life ' Demonstrated by members of the ' How ' Repertory Company
Written and produced by Stephen Potter
This programme describes the peculiar world which has grown up round Shakespeare and which demonstrates in fact how not to appreciate him. Learned and irrelevant notes; pedantic or by contrast ' imaginative lives; talks describing the tremendous Englishness and tremendous niceness, not so much of Shakespeare but of the speaker; one's least favourite moments in least favourite Shakespeare productions
Goldberg Variations played by Rolf Langnese (piano)
by Christopher Marlowe
Other players Include Franklyn Bellamy. Andrew Churchman , Philip Lennard. Bryan Powley , Charles Renison. Arthur Ridley. Ralph de Rohan. David Duncan , Hillary Wontner. Douglas Mattison. and Marjorie Westbury
Textual advisor.'M. R. Ridley
Produced by Peter Watts
Quartet in A played by the Belgian Piano Quartet
T. S. Gregory talks about the art of contemplation
Introduced by Steuart Wilson
Choir of St. Mark's, North Audley Street
Conductor, Maurice Vinden
From St. Mark's. North Audley Street
8-' Thieves of Mercy'
Written for broadcasting by Herbert Read
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Parti
Author's statement of the problem, read by Cecil Trouncer
Part 2
Part 3
Author's postscript, read hy Cecil Trouncer
What took place aboard the privateer which captured Hamlet on his way to England? How was it that, on his return to Denmark, the melancholy Prince had become a man of energy and resolution?