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Come all you gallant poachers who wander void of care,
Who walk out on a moonlight night with your gun and dog and snare.
The hare and lofty pheasant you have at your command,
Never thinking of your last career upon
Van Diemen's Land

A ballad opera written for radio by H.A.L. Craig and Dominic Behan based on the accounts of the transportations to Australia and Tasmania

Contributors

Writer:
H.A.L. Craig
Writer:
Dominic Behan
Music composed and arranged by:
John Beckett
Production:
Francis Dillon

Anthony Powell author of The Music of Time sequence talks to Kingsley Amis
Basing their conversation on Mr. Powell's sequence, augmented recently by the publication of Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, the two novelists talk informally about problems of continuity and construction-as well as content-which arise in the writing of extended works of fiction.
followed by an interlude at 8.35

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Powell

Three talks by J. M. Cameron
Professor of Philosophy
In the University of Leeds
I-After Communism : the reaction after the Hungarian revolution of 1956 Professor Cameron thinks that the New Left is a young and not altogether coherent movement which is obviously going ahead. In these talks he analyses and criticises the views of some of its leaders and seeks to assess the significance in relation to Communism, Socialism, and contemporary British culture.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. M. Cameron

Third Programme

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