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Echoes from James Boswell 's tour with Dr. Johnson to the Western Isles in the summer of 1773 Written and narrated by Moray McLaren
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Calum Johnston (pipes) and Ian Whyte (harpsichord)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Boswell
Unknown:
Moray McLaren
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Unknown:
Calum Johnston
Harpsichord:
Ian Whyte
Dr Johnson:
Carleton Hobbs
James Boswell:
Bryden Murdoch
The Companion:
Tom Fleming
James Caird:
George Davies
The Higtaland woman:
Efbe Monrifon
Lady MeLeod:
Rhone Sykes
Mrs Mackinnon:
Lennox Milne

A romantic opera in four acts
Words and music by Albert Lortzing
(sung in German,) nobles, knights and ladies, hunters, fishermen, water spirits, apparitions
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana. Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benagllo )
Conducted BY ROBERT HEGER
The action takes place in Germany in the fifteenth century
Act 1
The inferior of a fisherman's dwelling by a lake

Contributors

Music By:
Albert Lortzing
Chorus-Master:
Roberto Benagllo
Conducted By:
Robert Heger
Bertaida, daughter of Duke Henry:
Marianna Schech
Hugo von Ringstetten, a knight:
Josef Traxel
Kuehleborn, ruler of the water spirits:
Gottfried Fehr
Tobias, a poor old fisherman:
Heinrich Sailer
Marthe, his wife:
Ina Gerhein
Undine, their adopted daughter:
Valerie Bak
Father Heilmann:
Rudolf Wuenzer
Veit, Hugo's arms-bearer:
Karl Krollmann
Hans, master of the wine cellars:
Richard Kogel

Talk by Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Sir John Slessor
Sir John Slessor attended last month the Commonwealtlh Relations Conference at Lahore. He comments on the different perspective in which Asian peoples view such contemporary aliiances and associations as NATO, the Turco-Pakistan agreement, and arrangements for regional defence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Slessor

Third Programme

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