by Max Beerbohm
An account of one Ladbroke Brown (dramatist), incorporating a broadcast of his uncompleted tragedy in five acts — ' Savonarola'
Arranged for broadcasting by John Cheatie. Produced by Felix Felton
St. Francis of Assisi, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Cosimo de Medici. Pope Julius II, Cesare Borgia, and others, played by Laurence Payne. Victor Fairley. Harry Hutchinson. Charles Leno , Lionel Stevens , Duncan Mclntyre , Maria Barry , Ernest Sefton , Alexander Sarner. and Arthur Ridley
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
BBC Chorus
(Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Part 1
A talk by Julia de Beausobre , suggesting the theatre as a possibility for conveying the real Dostoevsky to a non-Russian public
Part 2
Hubert Foss gives the second of two talks on the use and abuse of the miniature score
or ' Traces of Travel brought home from the East' by A. W. Kinglake (1809-91)
Adapted and produced by Robert Gittings and
(organ)
From Westminster Cathedral