The career of a doomed king by Louis MacNeice with Leo McKern
Peter Wyngarde and Allan McClelland
The Old Testament story of Saul, the first king of Israel, is shot through with tragic irony. The corruption of power was thrust upon this innocent young man by a prophet who himself was bitterly opposed to kingship. ' And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee,' said Samuel, and thou ... shalt be turned into another man.' But Saul, after his early successes, was turned into another man in a tragic sense; ' for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.'
Abandoned by Samuel, Saul becomes gradually madder and unhappier, and his one consolation is in David-till jealousy makes him David's enemy. He swings to and fro between love and hate, between sanity and madness, and, as he swings, is propelled towards disaster by his own actions and by circumstance.
Cast: with John Gabriel , Denis Goacher
Donald Gray. Malcolm Hayes
Edward Jewesbury , Alun Owen and Manning Wilson
Music composed by Matyas Seiber sung by the Dorian Singers
Production by Louis MacNeice
A comic opera in three acts
Words and music by Donizetti
(sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio )
CONDUCTED BY ALBERTO EREDE
Acr 1
Scene 1: A room in Don Pasquale's house Scene 2: Norina's boudoir
Talk by Roy Pascal
Professor of German in the University of Birmingham
A note in Kafka's journal makes it clear that Kafka not merely read Dickens but at times consciously imitated him. Professor Pascal reveals the extent of this imitation by comparing the technique of the two novelists with particular reference to Kafka's earliest novel America.
Act 2: A room in Don Pasquale's house
A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
28-Master and Servant by C. J. Hamson
Professor of Comparative Law in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College
How far is a master responsible for the actions of his servant?
Acr 3
Scene 1: A room in Don Pasquale's house.
Some hours later
Scene 2: Don Pasquale's garden. The same night
Talk by Evelyn Cheesman
O.B.E., F.R.E.S
The dispersal of plant and animal species on the Pacific islands may throw light on the geological history of that area. Evelyn Cheesman , who recently returned from her last expedition to the southern-most island of the New Hebrides, describes the purpose of the collections of plants and insects she has been making since 1924.
A group of three programmes
Including the poems of Garrett, Junqueiro, Nobre, Cesario Verde, Joao de Deus, Gomes Leal, Antero de Quental, and Florbela Espanca
Introduction by B. Vidigal
Translations by Nora Wydenbruck, Roy Campbell, W. S. Merwin, Gilbert Phelps
Readers: Anthony Jacobs, Martina Mayne, Sophia Andresen, Jorge de Sena
Poems selected and presented by Alberto de Lacerda
Produced by Sasha Moorsom
Jean Fournier (violin) Ginette Doyen (piano)
seen by visiting students
A discussion between
Elisabeth Davies (U.S.A.)
Jean Blondel (France)
Otto von der Gablentz (Germany)
Clovis Maksoud (Lebanon)
Chairman : Maurice Shock (U.K.)
Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble
Gareth Morris (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe) Natalie James (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Archie Jacob (clarinet) Cecil James (bassoon)
Edward Wilson (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn) Neill Sanders (horn)
Some reflections by Charles Mitchell on two paintings, by Arthur William Devis and Benjamin West , which portray Nelson's death on board the Victory.
