A weekly review of the arts
This programme includes
Theatre
A. Alvarez talks about the London pantomimes
Jens Arup talks about the fourth National Student Drama Festival
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
A Pleasant
Comedy of the Gentle Craft by Thomas
Dekker
(0. 1572-c. 1632)
First produced at court on January 1, 1600
Edited for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes
Music by John Hotchkis
The Welbeck Orchestra
(Leader, Vera Kantrovitch ) conducted by the composer
This if the first of a quarterly series of eight plays originally performed in the early part of the seventeenth century, from 1600 to the closing of the theatres by the Puritans.