The tragedy of Girolamo Savonarola
Monk of Florence (1452-1498)
Written for radio by H. A. L. Craig
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Street boys:__
M Westbury (Salvatore). Douglas Hankin (Giorgio), and John Bull (Alberto); with Nigel Lambert , David Langford. Howard Vaughan
The Weepers:_
Sheila Manahan. Olwen Brookes. Ian Lubbock , and Arthur Young Street songs set by William Alwyn
Christopher Bunting (cello)
Peter Wallfisch (piano)
Thomas PARKINSON of the University of ^California talks about Henry Miller 's most recent book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronxmus Bosch and about his work as a whole.
' When I try to find a single word that sums up Miller's quality,' says Mr. Parkinson, ' the word is " hilarity," a kind of ecstatic joy that, even when most humanely motivated, remains vaguely electric, galvanic, stripped of the softening contours of humour, free of the intellectual elaborateness of wit.'
A programme of Tudor dances and fancies by Morley, Dowland, and Gibbons
In Nomine Players:
.Maxwell Ward (viola pomposa)
Michael Mitchell (quinton)
Desmond Dupre (tenor viol)
Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba)
Francis Baines (violone) with Ruth Dyson (harpsichord)