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Stftmger Pierre Schneider talks about foreign guests in the French theatre
('La Regina e gli Insorti')
A play by Ugo Betti
Translated from the Italian and adapted for radio by Henry Reed
The time is the present day; the scene, a large dilapidated room in the chief public building of a hillside village near the frontier. The action takes place in a single night. The country in which the play is set is unnamed: it la not meant to be Italy.
Cast in order of speaking:
With
Aline Wattes and Edward Kelsey Produced by Donald McWhinnle
(Irene Worth is in ' A Day by the Sea at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
('The Turk in Italy')
Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani
Music by Rossini
(sung in Italian)
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio)
CONDUCTED BY MARIO ROSSI
Act 1
Scene 1: The seashore near Naples, with a gypsy encampment
Scene 2: A room in Don Geronio 's house Scene 3: As Scene 1. Night
Rent Elvin writes on page 6
by R. H. Wilenski
R. H. Wilenski , art historian and critic, gives varied recollections of the Tate Gallery since he went there as a boy in 1902. He traces the pattern of the Gallery's achievements and also the pattern of its problems.
Act 2
Scene 1: A ballroom at an inn
Scene 2: The seashore near Naples
of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17): The Seventh Circle of the violent; the River of Blood (tormenting the violent against others); the Wood of the Suicides; the Ring of Burning Sand (tormenting the violent against God, Nature, and Art); the poets meet the monster Geryon, guardian of the Eighth Circle; they descend into the great abyss on his back.
(Continued in next column)
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Denis Matthews (piano)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
5-Between Two Worlds
Talk by Sybil Wingate
' Our present organisation has been an appointed stage in our growth: it has been of good use and has enabled us to do great things, but the use is at an end and the stage is over' (Matthew Arnold ).
Last talk: Saturday at 9.20
Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Leonard Brain (cor anglais) The Allpgri String Quartet:
Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Fourth of six programmes
A talk by Joshua Podro on the methods and materia! used by himself and Robert Graves in the research for this book.
(The recorded broadcast of July 20)
Susi Jeans (harpsichord)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
