(piano)
Four Nocturnes (Chopin):
G minor. Op. 37 No. 1; E flat, Op 66 No. 2; G minor, Op. 15 No 3' C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 on gramophone records
A selection from recently published books of poems by John Berryman , George Mackay Brown
James Laughlin. Christopher Levenson
Robert Penn Warren
Arranged and introduced by Bernard Bergonzi
Read by Marvin Kane and Denis McCarthy
Part 1.
GEORGE STEINER , American literary critic, describes a seminar he unexpectedly gave in August on the border of the Dnieper. Dr. Zhivago, the fall of Trotsky, and the. Western approach to foreign affairs were among the questions discussed with his few hundred listeners.
Part 2. See foot of page and page 6
by William Shakespeare
CHRONICLER (Wilfrid Grantham ); ARCHI-Damus, lord of Bohemia (Edgar Norfolk ); CAMILLO, Sicilian lord (George Hagan ); POLIXENES, King of Bohemia (Brewster Mason ); LEONTES, King of Sicily (Harry Andrews ); HERMIONE, his Queen (Joan Hart ); MAMILLIUS, their son (George Bond ); LORD, attending on Leontes (lack Gwillim); ANTIGONUS, an old lord (Eric Anderson ); PAULINA, his wife (Molly Rankin ); EMILIA, attending on Hermione (Ella Milne ); CLEOMENES (Howieson Culff); DION (Michael Turner ); OLD SHEPHERD (George Merritt ); YOUNG SHEPHERD, his son (Frank Duncan ); AUTOLYCUS, a rogue (Charles Leno ); FLORIZEL, son to Polixenes (Gabriel Woolf ); PERDITA, daughter to Leontes (Marjorie Westbury ); MOPSA (Petra Daties); DORCAS (Hilda Schroder ); Steward (John Scott )
Music composed by Geoffrey Wright conducted by Marcus Dods
Adapted and produced by Peter Watts
CURING THE INTERVAL (8.45-8.56 app.): Adagio in E flat, D.897 (Schubert): played by Reinhold Barchet (violin), Helmut Reimann (cello), and Friedrich Würer (piano): on a record
Dennis Brain (horn)
Alan Civil (horn)
English String Quartet:
Ruth Pearl. Lesley White
Marjorie Lempfert , Helen Just with Anatole Mines (viola)