The Country-Wife by WILLIAM WYCHERLEY with Edith Evans , Joan Plowright
Clive Revill
Music by Solomon Eccles adapted and arranged by Lionel Salter
THE SCENE: London 1675
Production by CHARLES LEFEAUX
: second broadcast
This play, Wycherley's third. was first produced at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in 1675. It is one of the six plays presented by the Third Programme earlier this year to mark the tercentenary of the return of Charles 11. Otway's tragedy Venice Preserved will be broadcast on Tuesday, December 13.
DURING THE INTERVAL (8.55-9.5 app.)
Movements from
Lully's opera-ballet
Le Temple de la Paix played by the Oiseau-Lyre Orchestral Ensemble conducted by Louis de Froment on a gramophone record

by Peter Maxwell Davies

by Iona and Peter Opie
A series of four programmes showing how present-day children unwittingly keep alive the speech, humour, customs, and beliefs of previous centuries.

Recordings from different parts of England and Wales collected by Stewart Wavell Iona and Peter Opie, Father Damian Webb, Sasha Moorsom
Narrated by Peter Opie