The story by Franz Kafka set as a radio opera by Hans Werner Henze
English libretto by Charles Dimont and Patrick Savill
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
A section of the Schola Polyphonica
(Director, Henry Washington)
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian ) Conducted by Patrick Savill
(A second performance of the programme broadcast on Thursday)
by Sophocles
Translated by E. F. Watling
Music by Anthony Bernard
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
and with the London Chamber Singers and the London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
The Oedipus at Colonus was probably first produced in Athens in 401 B.C., after the poet's death.
Ralph Clarke (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader Paul Beard )
Conducted by Franz-André
Part 1
Eight talks on aspects of life in primitive communities
8—Modes of Thought by Godfrey Lienhardt
Lecturer in African Sociology in the University of Oxford
A talk on the nature of belief and of scepticism among primitive peoples.
Part 2
Six talks by William Empson
6-The Interior of Falstaff
In these talks Mr. Empson has discussed some problems of character and action in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Falstaff.
Alfred Orda (baritone)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Albert Chasey (violin)
Leslie Chasey (piano)
The Last of seventeen programmes, each of which has included a Mozart violin sonata.
Talk by T. E. Utley
An analysis of the political doctrines held by the Englishmen who reacted in the late nineteenth century against Cobdenism and its implications.