Lyra String Quartet
by Henry James
Adapted and produced by Mary Hope Allen
Henry Mason (William Sylvester). Madame Beaurepas (Dorothy Holmes-Gore), Monsieur Pigeonneau (EsmS Percy), Mr. Ruck (Macdonald Parke), Mrs. Ruck (Tucker McGuire ). Miss Sophie Ruck (Lois McLean ), Mrs. Church (Angela Baddeley ), Cabman and Gargon (Jeffrey Segal ), Miss Aurora Church (Mairhi Russell )
Scene: Geneva at the end of last century
followed by an interlude at 8.0
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part i
Talk by Terence Prittie " Manchester Guardian" correspondent in Germany
Part 2
(Sir Adrian Boult broadcasts by permission of the London Philharmonio Orchestra, Ltd.) followed by an interlude at 10.0
A.G. Lehmann , Professor of French at Reading University, discusses one problem of interpreting Mozart today
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Robert Graves reviews the -Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book",
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 25. 1955)