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An illustrated talk by Professor J. Dover Wilson
This programme introduces the three Shakespeare historical plays to be broadcast in the Third Programme thi! week: Henry VI Parts 2 and 3, and Richard III. It takes the place of the largely non-Shakespearean play Henry VI Part I with episodes from the play acted by: Produced by Peter Watts
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 31) ' Henry VI' Part 2: Tuesday at 8.30

Contributors

Talk By:
Professor J. Dover Wilson
Unknown:
Richard Iii.
Produced By:
Peter Watts
Lord Talbot:
Deryck Guyler
Margaret of Anjou:
Sonia Dresdel
William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk:
Leonard Sachs
French General:
Wilfred Babbage
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York:
Stephen Jack
Sir William Lucy:
Eric Anderson
Duke of Somerset:
Hugh Falkus
John Talbot:
Peter Assinder
Earl of Warwick (' The Kingmaker '):
Dennis Arundell

Musikalische Exequien
The Deller Consort:
April Cantelo (sopramo)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Eric Barnes (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone) Norman Platt (baritone)
The London Bach Society
Terence Weil (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) Arnold Richardson (organ) Conducted by Paul Steinitz

Contributors

Soprano:
Eileen McLoughlin
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Tenor:
Eric Barnes
Baritone:
Maurice Bevan
Baritone:
Norman Platt
Cello:
Terence Weil
Double-Bass:
Eugene Cruft
Double-Bass:
Arnold Richardson
Conducted By:
Paul Steinitz

Bernard Lefort (baritone)
Jean-Michel Damase
(accompanist)
The Quintetto Chigiano:
Ricardo Brengola (violin) Mario Benvenuti (violin)
Giovanni Leone (viola)
Lino Filippini (cello) Sergio Lorenzi (piano)
(The songs are recorded)

Contributors

Baritone:
Bernard Lefort
Accompanist:
Jean-Michel Damase
Violin:
Ricardo Brengola
Violin:
Mario Benvenuti
Viola:
Giovanni Leone
Cello:
Lino Filippini
Piano:
Sergio Lorenzi

Talk by K. J. Fielding
The speaker suggests that there is a relationship between chapter seventeen of Dickens' unfinished mys-tery novel Edwin Drood and the controversy that raged around Governor Eyre following the notorious massacre in Jamaica in 1865. K. J. Fielding is Lecturer in English at Liverpool University.

Contributors

Talk By:
K. J. Fielding
Unknown:
Edwin Drood

Third Programme

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