Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,736 playable programmes from the BBC

Talk by the Rev. H. L. Short
Lecturer in Christian History at Manchester College. Oxford
Jacobus Acontius was a religious exile who came to Elizabethan London as an engineer. He was a pioneer in scientific method and in religious toleration: to him both of these interests sprang from the same principles. Mr. Short speaks about Acontius and about one of his better-known books, The Stratagems of Satan.
(The recorded broadcast of April 1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. H. L. Short
Unknown:
Jacobus Acontius

Gene Baro, a young American writer himself, speaks of the social and spiritual implications of the South, and argues that the school of fiction associated with it is a truer picture of Southern society than most of us realise. Mr. Baro's poems and short stories have been published in several magazines, including Botteghe Oscure and New World Writing. He is curator of the Collection of Creative Writing at the University of Florida at Gainsville, and reviews regularly for the New York Herald Tribune.

A play for radio by Robert Oxton Bolt'
Production by Donald McWhinnie
The author writes: ' The characters in my play learn, as we learn daily, that the atomic bomb may be dropped on them ... It preoccupies them, but not exclusively. They talk about it, of course, but nothing more; their action is all for themselves, and perhaps their behaviour in their smaller, personal situations indicates why their response to the greater and general situation is, like ourst so grotesquely inadequate. A civilisation is destroyed when the people who live in it no longer want to make the commitments, religious, political, and personal, which constitute it.

Contributors

Production By:
Donald McWhinnie
Mrs Violet Balfour:
Fay Compton
Rupert, her grandson:
Oscar Quitak
Percy, his brother:
Simon Lack
Major Sebastian Collitt, a relative of the intermediate generation:
Basil Dignam
Lucy, cousin to Rupert and Percy:
Betty McDowall
Mr Whiteleg, a carpenter:
Frank Atkinson
The Rev. Samuel Broadbent. a retired clergyman:
Edgar Norfolk
Margaret, his wife:
Belle Chrystall
A radio announcer:
Peter Howell

Third Programme

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More