Kroll String Quartet: William Kroll (violin) Louis Graeler (violin)
David Mankovitz (viola)
Avron Twerdowsky (cello) with Grosse Fuge as finale
A fragment of autobiography by Edwin Brock
Cast: Janet Burnell , Sheila Grant Ella Milne. Michael Collins ,
Frank Duncan , Denis Goacher , and Frederick Treves
Narrated by the author
Produced by Terence Tiller
: second broadcast
George Malcolm (harpsichord) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
A talk by Roland Oliver arising from the recent publication of Lugard: The Years of Authority. the second volume of the biography by Margery Perham
Lord Lugard has come to be regarded as the architect of British colonial rule in tropical Africa. Dr. Oliver believes that Lugard's vision of the African future went far beyond his administrative achievements, and that this in part accounts for his being ' possibly the least orthodox civil servant ever to hold high office.'
Part 2 conducted by the composer
BENJAMIN BRITTEN discusses with the writers of the libretto, E. M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER , how they made an opera from Melville's story.
sung by Artur Eizen (bass) with Kiryl Vinogradov (piano)
A story by Vera Leff read by Nicholas Selby
Mulvaney was a British fascist. This is his confession, a confession of murder, the story of a crippled life and mind.
