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Extracts from Langland's poem
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
Produced by Stephen Potter -
Readers:
Cecil Trouncer , Valentine Dyall Cathleen Nesbitt , Basil Taylor
Anne Cullen , Alexander Sarner Mary Hignett , Malcolm Graeme
This reading includes the famous vision of Christ's harrowing of Hell and the coming of the Anti-Christ, and the world in disaster seeking for Piers Plowman

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Nevill Coghill
Produced By:
Stephen Potter
Readers:
Cecil Trouncer
Readers:
Valentine Dyall
Readers:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Readers:
Basil Taylor
Unknown:
Anne Cullen
Unknown:
Alexander Sarner
Unknown:
Mary Hignett
Unknown:
Malcolm Graeme

by David Huelin
Music composed by David Oppenheimer and conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Produced by Mary Hope Allen

Contributors

Writer:
David Huelin
Composer:
David Oppenheimer
Conducted by:
Arnold Goldsbrough
Producer:
Mary Hope Allen
Peter:
Norman Shelley
Death:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Satan:
Abraham Sofaer
St Peter:
Bryan Powley
John:
Richard Williams
His wife:
Eileen Beldon
Madalena:
Vida Hope
Gentleman:
Heron Carvic
Lady:
Ann Codrington
Farmer:
Frank Cochrane

A masque by James Shirley with music by Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons
Edited by Edward J . Dent
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra Conductor. Anthony Bernard
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Contributors

Unknown:
James Shirley
Music By:
Matthew Locke
Music By:
Christopher Gibbons
Edited By:
Edward J . Dent
Conductor:
Anthony Bernard
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Cupid Joan:
Coxon (soprano)
Death:
Arthur Reckless
Nature:
Margaret Field-Hyde
Mercury:
George Pizzey (baritone)
Chamberlain:
René Soames (tenor)

by Ian Cox
Ian Cox Is interested In verse as a means of vigorous communication in sound. In this talk, which he Illustrates by readings from Sir Walter Raleigh. King Lear. and T. S. Eliot. he argues that times of sudden change in the world result In rapid changes In the spoken language, which are reflected in contemporary verse because the poet particularly requires a vigorous language to express himself

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Cox
Unknown:
Ian Cox
Unknown:
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot.

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