A play in three parts by August Strinberg in a new translation and radio adaptation by Peter Watts
Part 1
with Cyril Shaps. Alan Reid, Arthur Lawrence, Jack Gwillim, Evelyn Moore, Elizabeth London
Produced by Peter Watts
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 13)
(Part 2 on Tuesday at 21.30; Part 3 on Thursday at 19.50)
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Vincenzo Grimani
Music by Handel
(sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Agrippina, wife of Claudius … Magda Laszlo
Nero, her son by a former marriage … Petre Munteanu
Freed slaves:
Pallas … Georgio Tadeo
Narcissus … Maria Amadini
Lesbos, servant to Claudius … Enrico Campi
Otto, a Roman general … Giuseppe Taddei
Poppea, a noble lady of Rome … Onelia Fineschi
Claudius, Emperor of Rome … Mario Petri
The goddess Juno … Maria Amadini
Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
Conducted by Antonio Pedrotti
Scene: Rome in the first century A.D.
Act 1
Scene 1: Agrippina's apartment
Scene 2: The Forum of the Capitol
Scene 3: Poppea's room
Talk by J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolken, the translator of the recently broadcast poem, speaks about its meaning and place in the literature of the Chaucerian period.
Act 2
Scene 1: A street in Rome by the palace
Scene 2: A garden with a fountain
Scene 3: Agrippina's retiring-room
Act 3
Scene 1: Poppea's room
Scene 2: A hall in the royal palace
A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic
Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
Cantar 1 (Part 1)
The Cid, Ruy Diaz, is exiled by the King of Castille, collects his friends and vassals, and adventures against the Moors.
Narrator … James McKechnie
El Cid … Oliver Burt
Alvar Fanez … Marne Maitland
Girl … Marjorie Westbury
Antolinez … Anthony Jacobs
Raquel … Peter Augustine
Vidas … Martin Benson
Jimena … Nicolette Bernard
Abbot Sancho … Ralph Truman
Angel Gabriel … Tom Lake
(Part 2 on January 10)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Amadeus String Quartet: Norbert Brainin (violin), Siegmund Nissel (violin), Peter Schidlof (vioia), Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in A minor, Op. 29 … Schubert
Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, for clarinet and strings … Brahms
A talk on Lord Justice Denning's book by C.J. Hamson, Professor of Comparative Law in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College
(Followed by an interlude at 21.50)
Ayres for Four Voices
Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Can she excuse my wrongs?: Woeful heart with grief oppressed; Awake sweet love; In this trembling shadow cast; Sleep wayward thoughts; When Phoebus first did Daphne love; O what hath overwrought?; Were every thought an eye
The Golden Age Singers: Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano), John Whitworth (counter-tenor), Rene Soames (tenor), Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde
with Julian Bream (lute)
Introduced by Thurston Dart
The first of four programmes of ayres by Dowland from volume 6 of Musica Britannica
Talk by Hugh Tracey
The speaker, who was Regional Director of Broadcasting in Durban for more than twelve years, has spent the last few years recording African folk music, mostly in the southern half of the continent. He will play some of these records in a programme on January 13.
Four Preludes: The undertone; Obsession; The Holy Boy; Fire of spring
Sarnia—an island sequence: Le Catioroc; In a May morning; Song of the springtides played by Eric Parkin (piano)
The first of tour recitals of piano music by John Ireland.
