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A discussion on, and explanation of. how a film is made. Introducing the key personnel of an Ealing Studios film unit: including the associate producer, Ivor Montague; the director. Charles Crighton. and the script-writer. Walter Meade
Written and produced by the art director, Malcolm Baker-Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Montague
Unknown:
Charles Crighton.
Unknown:
Walter Meade
Unknown:
Malcolm Baker-Smith

A dramatic poem for broadcasting
Written by Henry Treece
Produced by Robert Gittings
Other parts played by Susan Richards, Frank Atkinson, Charles Lefeaux, Eric Lugg.Arthur Ridley
Music composed by Grace Williams played by the string section of the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
(Andrew Cruickshank broadcasts by permission of Maurice Ostrer)
' Britain js a dark island.' The story of the Belgic king, Caratacus-his fruitless campaigns against the Roman invasion of Britain under the Emperor Claudius, and his lonely exile as a distinguished prisoner in Rome-Is a symbol of the individual overcome by the forces of efficient materially organised life, and one that has many imaginative parallels with the present time

Contributors

Written By:
Henry Treece
Produced By:
Robert Gittings
Played By:
Susan Richards
Played By:
Frank Atkinson
Played By:
Charles Lefeaux
Played By:
Eric Lugg.
Unknown:
Arthur Ridley
Composed By:
Grace Williams
Conductor:
Mansel Thomas
First narrator:
Carleton Hobbs
Second narrator:
Lockwood West
Third narrator:
Julian Somers
An agitator:
Basil Dignam
Caratacus, King of the Belgae:
Bernard Miles
Madoc,the bard:
Esmé Percy
Cartismandua, Queen of Brigantia:
Susan Richmond
A singing woman:
Ceinwen Rowlands
Claudius, Emperor of Rome:
Andrew Cruickshank

Talk by Mark Abrams
The speaker, a social statistician, discusses the exact meaning of this much used phrase and the evidence on the following questions: Is our standard of living falling at this moment? Is it falling for all classes of the population or only for some? What is the . effect of Government policy, and particularly of taxation?

Contributors

Talk By:
Mark Abrams

Third Programme

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