by JEAN COCTEAU with Coral Browne as Jocasta
Albert Finney as Oedipus and Miles Malleson
Catherine Dolan , Heron Carrie
The English version by Carl Wildman edited for radio in collaboration with H. B. Fortuin
Music by Tristram Cary
'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 with special effects by the Radiophonic Workshop
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
BBC recording: second broadcast
' La Rencontre d'Oedipe et du Sphinx,' Act 2 of 'La Machine Infernale,' with an introduction by the author: Saturday, December 17
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DURING THE INTERVAL (9.16-9.25 app.) Movements from
Andre Jolivet 's Delphic Suite played by an instrumental ensemble directed by the composer on a gramophone record

Severino Gazzelloni (flute) Clifton Helliwell (piano)