Story by William Faulkner
Read by Frank Atkinson
Lyrical comedy in three acts after
' The Merry Wives of Windsor '
Libretto by Arrigo Boito !
English translation by Humphrey Procter-Gregg
Music by Verdi
Cast in order of singing:
Burghers and street folk; Ford's servants; maskers as elves, fairies. witches
(Continued in next column)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by John Clements )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Led by John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Presented by Mark Lubbock
Narrator. Andrew Cruickshank
Act 1
Scene 1: Interior of ' The Garter Inn ' Scene 2: A garden
The Coussey Report on the Gold Coast by Kenneth Bradley , C.M.G.
In 1948 an all-African committee (the first of its kind in Africa) was set up under an African judge, Mr. Justice Coussey , to make recommendations on the political future of the Gold Coast. The committee has now submitted a unanimous report which has been largely accepted.
Kenneth Bradley , who spent over twenty years in administrative work in Africa and was formerly Under Secretary, Gold Coast, talks about the historical importance of this report.
Act 2
Scene 1: Interior of ' The Garter Inn ' Scene 2: A room in Ford's house
The Pre-Historic Peoples by Glyn Daniel , Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Archaeology in the University.
Act 3
Scene 1: Outside ' The Garter Inn ' Scene 2: Windsor Park
' Frost at Midnight'
' The Nightingale'
'Dejection: an Ode' ' An Ode to the Rain '
Readers:
Douglas Leach , Robert Marsden
Production by Donald McWhinnie
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Impromptu in F sharp. Op. 36
Polonaise in F sharp minor. Op. 44 Berceuse. Op. 57
Allegro de concert, Op. 46 * Two Studies, Op. 10:
3. in E; 4. in C sharp minor
Last of eighteen programmes of music by Chopin
(1884-1936)
Constant Lambert , who waa a personal friend of Bernard van Dieren , sketches a portrait of the composer
Symphony No. 2
Andante maestoso-allegro agitato; Allegro risoluto; Andante soatenuto; Andante mosso-allegro sostenuto played by the Prague Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Karel Ancerl
