by JEAN COCTEAU with Coral Browne as Jocasta
Albert Finney as Oedipus and Miles Malleson
Catherine Dolan , Heron Carvic
The English version by Carl Wildman edited for radio by Carl Wildmao and H. B. Fortuin
Music by Tristram Cary with special effects by the Radiophonic Workshop
* Listener, wound up here to the full so that the spring will slowly unwind the whole length of a human life, is one of the most perfect machines constructed by the infernal gods for the mathematical destruction of a human being.'
How Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx and through parricide and incest is made to face human destiny in a world which could be ancient Greece or modern Europe.
Characters in order of speaking
Music conducted by the composer
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.0-9.10 app.)
Movements from
Andre Jolivet 's Delphic Suite played by an instrumental ensemble directed by the composer on a gramophone record

Arne Skjold Rasmussen (piano)
Piano Music for young and old (1930)
Suite (1919)
Recorded In Copenhagen by courtesy of Danmarks Radio
Last of three programmes of Nielsen's piano music