20:00

' ORFEO '

Mon 4^th Nov 1957, 20:00 on Third Programme

Music drama in a prologue and five acts
Libretto by Alessandro Striggio
Music by Monteverdi sung in Italian: on records
Other parts sung by Hildegard Wild , Bernhard Michaelis
Clemens Kaiser-Brerne and Peter Offermanns
Chorus of the Hamburg State Academy for Music
Orchestra of the 1955 Hitzacker Summer Festival
Conducted BY AUGUST WENZINGER
Prologue
Acts 1 and 2: A grove In Thrace

Contributors

Unknown:: Alessandro Striggio
Sung By:: Hildegard Wild
Sung By:: Bernhard Michaelis
Sung By:: Clemens Kaiser-Brerne
Sung By:: Peter Offermanns
Conducted By:: August Wenzinger
Orpheus:: Helmut Krebs
Eurydice:: Hanni MacK-Cosack
Music:: Margot Guilleaume
Proserpine:: Margot Guilleaume
Hope:: Jeanne Deroubaix
A messenger:: Jeanne Deroubaix
Pluto:: Horst GÃ¼nter
Charon:: Peter Roth-Ehrang
Apollo:: Fritz Wunderlich
A spirit:: Fritz Wunderlich
A shepherd:: Fritz Wunderlich

Source: Radio Times

20:55

THE DUMAS TRINITY

Third Programme

Mon 4^th Nov 1957, 20:55 on Third Programme

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by Robert Baldick
* An astonishing trinity which straddles the nineteenth century..... ' Dr. Baldick refers in his talk to Andre Maurois's triple biography Les trois Dumas, pubtished today in English translation under the title Three Musketeers.

Contributors

Unknown:: Robert Baldick

Source: Radio Times

21:15

ORFEO'

Third Programme

Mon 4^th Nov 1957, 21:15 on Third Programme

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Act 3: The banks of the River Styx Act 4: The Underworld
Act 6: A grove in Thrace

Source: Radio Times

22:15

A HAIRY REPTILE

Third Programme

Mon 4^th Nov 1957, 22:15 on Third Programme

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by W. E. Swinton Ph.D.. F.R.S.E. British Museum (Natural History)
Dr. Swinton describes the remarkable discovery in Arizona of remains of animals whose skeletons are reptilian but whose physiology was almost certainly of the kind we now attribute to mammals.