by A. H. Clough
A selection by Patric Dickinson
Reader, C. Day Lewis
Lyric drama by Antonin Dvorak
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Cast, in order of singing
Chorus and Orchestra of Czechoslovak Broadcasting Corporation
Conducted by Alois Klima
Act 1: A wooded glade by a lake
On September 3. 1939, the Admiralty sent out a signal to the Fleet: ' Winston is back.' In the first volume of his war memoirs... The Gathering Storm,' Mr. Churchill pays much attention to the naval war up to May 1940. His account is reviewed by Michael Lewis , Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Act 2: Garden of the Prince's palace
Talk by Michael Balfour
The speaker, who before the war was Lecturer in Politics at St. John's College, Oxford, and Secretary to the Chatham House Study Group on Nationalism, describes how control of force affects ideas current in a society, and how ideas, in their turn, affect the way in which force is used
Act 3: A wooded glade by a lake
by Ferdinand Peroutka. Adapted for radio by Margaret Brown and Robert Gore Brown from an original translation by Ivan Jelinek
(Continued in next column)
Production by Frank Hauser and David H. Godfrey
played by Ralph Downes
From Brompton Oratory
