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by William Shakespeare
Scene: Denmark
Production by John Richmond
(.) (A revival of the production first broadcast in 1948)

Stephen Williams writes on page 8
Part 1

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Production:
John Richmond
Unknown:
Stephen Williams
Gentlemen of the Guard - Bernando:
Richard Williams
Gentlemen of the Guard - Francisco:
Stanley Groome
Horatio, Hamlet's friend:
Sebastian Shaw
Marcellus, Officer of the Royal Guard:
Anthony Jacobs
Claudius, King of Denmark, brother of the late King:
Andrew Cruickshank
Voltimand, a courtier:
Hugh Manning
Laertes, Polonius' son:
Hugh Burden
Polonius, chief of the King's counsellors:
Baliol Holloway
Hamlet, son of the late and nephew of the present King:
John Gielgud
Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother:
Marian Spencer
Ophelia, Polonius' daughter:
Celia Johnson
Ghost of the late king:
Leon Quartermaine
Reynaldo, servant to Polonius:
Frank Atkinson
Courtiers, formerly fellow-students of Hamlet -Â Rosencrantz:
Bryan Coleman
Courtiers, formerly fellow-students of Hamlet -Â Guildenstern:
John Chandos
First player:
Hugh Griffith
Player queen:
Denise Bryer
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway:
Andrew Faulds
A captain of the Norwegian army:
Denis McCarthy
Gravediggers:
Charles Leno
Gravediggers:
Preston Lockwood
A priest:
Arthur Ridley
Osric a fantastic:
Esme Percy
A gentleman:
Alastair Duncan
Ambassador from England:
Victor Lucas
Narrator:
Duncan Carse

Camille Maurane (baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)

Georges Enesco, who is this week conducting two broadcast performances of Bach's Mass in.B minor, was born in Rumania in 1881, but has spent much of his life in Paris; as a young man, he studied composition at the Conservatoire under Gabriel Faure. His seven songs to words by the sixteenth-century poet Clement Marot , published in 1909, are naturally in the French style; and although they are clearly stamped with Enesco's personality they owe something to hit teacher in their faithful setting of French words, their lucid texture and subtle harmonies. It is particularly interesting to note how in Languir me fais he his followed Faure's procedure in ' Clair De lune, letting the piano continue with the melody it has introduced, while the voice sings another metody againtt it.
(Deryck Cooke)

Contributors

Piano:
Ernest Lush
Unknown:
Gabriel Faure.
Unknown:
Clement Marot
Unknown:
Deryck Cooke

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