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Comedy by Titus Maccius Plautus
Translated Into English verse by Patric Dickinson with music by John Hotchkis played by the BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader. George Deason ) Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Production by Raymond Raikes
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column) and and This play was first acted in Rome at the Megalesian Games in the City-Praetorship ot Marcus Junius, son of Marcus, in the year 191 B.C.

Contributors

Comedy By:
Titus MacCius Plautus
Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Music By:
John Hotchkis
Leader:
George Deason
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Calldorus, a lovesick young man:
Anthony Jacobs
Charinus, his friend in need:
Preston Lockwood
Ballio, a brothel-keeper:
Cecil Trouncer
Simo, Calidorus' old father:
Norman Shelley
Oallipho his next-door neighbour, an old man:
Franklyn Bellamy
Harpax batman of Captain Poly machaeroplagides:
Dudley Jones
Stmmia, a new servant of Charinus family:
Charles Leno
A cook, engaged by the brothel-keeper:
David Kossoff
Pseudolus, Simo's family servant:
Bernard Miles
Male slaves of the brothel:
Hugh Manning
Male slaves of the brothel:
Andrew Churchman
Female slaves of the brothel:
Denise Bryer
Female slaves of the brothel:
Janet Morrison
Female slaves of the brothel:
Betty Baskcomb

Settings of poems by Goethe
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Julius Patzak (tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Gretchen am Splnnrade; Liebhaber In alien Gestalten; Wanderers Nachtlied (Der du von dem Himmel bist); Wanderers Nachtlied (ttber alien Gipfeln 1st Run'); Der Musensohn
Ganymed; Versunken; An den Mond;
Rastlose Liebe
An Schwager Kronos: Meeresstllle;
Der Erlkonig; Geheimes; Prometheus
Before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Settings by Hugo Wolf of poems by Goethe: Thursday at 6.40

Contributors

Soprano:
Suzanne Danco
Tenor:
Julius Patzak
Baritone:
Bruce Boyce
Piano:
Frederick Stone
Unknown:
Hugo Wolf

Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
John Francis (flute)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Lucille Wallace (harpsichord)
A Wind Ensemble
The Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Conducted by Nadia Boulanger

Contributors

Soprano:
Elsie Suddaby
Contralto:
Anne Wood
Tenor:
Rene Soames
Baritone:
Gordon Clinton
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Flute:
John Francis
Violin:
Maurice Clare
Harpsichord:
Lucille Wallace
Conducted By:
Nadia Boulanger

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