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A mystery play
Arranged for broadcasting by John Barton and Raymond Raikes
Taken from the York Tile-thatchers' Play, the Ludus Coventriae Birth of Christ, the Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants of the Shearmen and Taylors and of the Weavers, the Wakefield Prima and Secunda Pastorum , the Chester Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, and the Hegge Salutation and Conception.
Production by Raymond Raikes
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Stephen Manton (tenor) The Ambrosian Singers
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
Conducted by Douglas Robinson

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
John Barton
Broadcasting By:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Secunda Pastorum
Unknown:
Chester Nativity
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Composed By:
Elizabeth Poston
Tenor:
Stephen Manton
Conducted By:
Douglas Robinson
The Son:
Deryck Guyler
Gabriel:
Godfrey Kenton
Mary:
June Tobin
Joseph:
Norman Shelley
Shepherds: John Horn:
Charles Leno
Shepherds: Dick:
John Glyn-Jones
Shepherds: Daw:
Geoffrey Matthews
Mak, a sheep stealer:
Rupert Davies
Gill, his wife:
Vivienne Chatterton

Settings of poems by Heine Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Hertha Klust (piano)
Part 1
LIEDERKREIS, Op. 24
Morgcns steh' ich auf und frage; Es treibr mich hin; Ich wandelte unter den Baumen; Lieb' Licbchcn, leg's Handchen; Schone Wiege meiner Leiden; Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann; Berg und Burgen schau n heruntcr; Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen; Mit Myrten und Rosen

Contributors

Piano:
Hertha Klust
Unknown:
Schone Wiege

Third Programme

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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