Fantasy Quintet played by the Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello) with Jean Stewart (viola)
A Scots fantasy in verse and prose by Alexander Reid
Adapted for broadcasting by the author
[Starring] Duncan Macrae, Stanley Baxter, Rona Anderson and Gordon Jackson
with Robert Graham, Harvey Scott and Gerard Slevin
Opera in a prologue and three acts
Libretto by Piave Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian) on gramophone records
Chorus and Orchestra of the Rome Opera House
CONDUCTED BY GABRIELE SANTINI
The action takes place in and near Genoa about the middle of the fourteenth century
PROLOGUE:
A square
Act I
Scene 1: The garden of the Grimaldi palace outside the city
Scene 2: The council chamber in the Doge's palace
George Steiner , the American literary critic, speaks on Georg Lukacs , the most important of Marxist literary critics and philosophers of art
(sung in Italian) on gramophone records
ACT 2: A room in the Doge's palace
ACT 3: Another part of the Doge's palace, overlooking the illuminated city and the sea followed by an Interlude at 9.50
by Ethel Hatch
Miss Ethel Hatch , whose recollections of Lewis CarroU were broadcast last year, now recollects the vanished Oxford of the 1880s.
A reading by Flora Robson
The poems selected and introduced by James Reeves
played by Paul Badura-Skoda
