by Eugene O'Neill
Adapted for broadcasting by Marianne Helweg
Produced by Hugh Stewart
The action of the play concerns the Miller family who live in a large small-town in Connecticut, U.S.A.
(Songs of Gurre)
Text by J. P. Jacobsen
English version by D. Millar Craig (tenor)(soprano) ( mezzo-soprano) (bass- baritone) (tenor)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Bromley and District Male Voice Choir
(Chorus-Master, Sidney Smith )
Thurrock Male Voice Choir
(Chorus-Master, Arthur Jones )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. David McCallum )
Conducted by Kart Rank !
Part 1
Leibniz and the Origin of Things
First of three talks by Stuart Hampshire
The speaker first explains the place of theories of the origin of things in metaphysics and he then discusses an important fallacy which generally underlies theories of this kind.
Pans 2 and 3
A dramatised exploration of a village in Crete
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Anoyia is the largest and one of the strangest villages in that strange island, Crete. It lies high on the side of legendary Mount Ida and its people have always been noted for their independent spirit; during the second world war they played a leading part in the Resistance, and in 1944 the village was burned to the ground by the Germans. Today the rubble heaps still outnumber the houses.
This programme is not so much a 'documentary' as an attempt to recapture the impact of this place on a foreign visitor - for it is as peculiar in its way as the Minoan remains in the plain below.
Piano Trio No. 3, In C: played by Szymon Goldberg (violin), Anthony Pini (cello), and Lili Kraus (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by Owen Holloway
' The problem of the human heart in conflict with itself.' declared William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize speech, I alone can make good writing.' Owen Holloway suggests that this is no key to the novels and claims that Faulkner's importance is due to his understanding of the special resources of narrative art.
