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Commedia Harmonica by Orazio Vecchi sung by the BBC Midland Singers Conductor, John Lowe
The English version by Edward Dent
Introduced by Alvar Lidell
L'Amfiparnaso is a set of fourteen madrigals, grave and gay, depicting various episodes, sentimental or ribald, in the lives of some of the stock pantomime characters of the Commedia dell' arte. The spectacle of which I speak, wrote Vecchi in 1597 in a prologue to the work, ' is seen through the mind, into which it enters through the ears, not through the eyes.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Orazio Vecchi
Conductor:
John Lowe
Introduced By:
Alvar Lidell

Written by Bill Naughton
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with John Sharp , Sian Davies
Frank Partington. Jeremy Bradbury
Lizbeth Stewart , Jack Howarth
Fred Fairclough , Kevin White , and boys of St. Joseph's School, Salford
It is a warm summer morning in a Lancashire town on the feast of Corpus Christi 1921. The coal strike is on and six boys set out on a journey to the slag heap to pick coals for the empty grates in their homes and to earn a bit of cash.

Contributors

Written By:
Bill Naughton
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Unknown:
John Sharp
Unknown:
Sian Davies
Unknown:
Frank Partington.
Unknown:
Jeremy Bradbury
Unknown:
Lizbeth Stewart
Unknown:
Jack Howarth
Unknown:
Fred Fairclough
Unknown:
Kevin White
Mrs Duckworth:
Violet Carson
Herbert Duckworth:
Alan Sykes
Mrs Taylor:
Joyce Latham
Jimmy Taylor:
Norman Hayes
Michael M'Cloud:
Raymond Fitzpatrick
Mrs M'Cloud:
Mary O'Farrell
Mr M'Cloud:
David Blake Kelly
Ben Shilliton:
Ian Piper
Mrs Shilliton:
Mildred Dyson
Spadger Chadwick:
Peter Harvey
Mrs Haddock:
Barbara Greenhalgh
Ernie Haddock:
Terry Dean
Miss Twining:
Vida Paterson

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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