A literary miscellany compiled and introduced by John Lehmann with poems and prose passages from the works of British waters of the war years including:
W. H. Auden , Keith Douglas
Lawrence Durrell , T S. Eliot Roy Fuller , David Gascoyne Henry Green , Graham Greene
Alun Lewis. C. Day Lewis Louis MacNeice . George Orwell
William Plomer. Henry Reed
William Sansom. Stephen Spender
Dylan Thomas , Terence Tiller and Denton Welch
Readers:
Hugh Dickson. Valentine Dyall and Martin Starkie
Produced by George MacBeth
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Auf eine Christblume (1 and 2); Seufzer;
Wo find' ich Trost?; Urn Mitternacht; An die Geliebte; Lied eines Verliebten, Zur Warnung (Morike Lieder) on gramophone records
A new play for broadcasting by James Hanley
' God help Clancy, the fine feller he was. 'Twos him that called me a queen, the great feller, a queen, says he For never onced, he ses, no, never onced in your whole life did ye ever turn your back upon the sea, nor upon the rock, nor upon the ship, an' the man on it....
Other parts played by Desmond Jordan , Doreen Keogh and Gabriel Woolf
Produced by John Gibson
