by Frank Kermode
Professor of English Literature in the University of Manchester
Professor Kermode traces the influence of dancers in the 'nineties on the poetry of Arthur Symons , Yeats, Wilde, and others. He stresses the key significance of Loie Fuller as ' the spirit of an unborn aesthetic,' the living embodiment of Mallarme's Idea, or symbol Reader, Denis McCarthy

Arranged for radio by Micheal Oh hAodha from the story of the same name by SEUMAS O'KELLY
Mortimer Hehir , the weaver, has died and is to be buried. But where? As a young man he had bought his plot of earth in the graveyard of Cloon na Morav-now it cannot be found. Only three old men are left alive who would know the spot he had chosen for his last resting-place. and Produced by JOHN GIBSON

Eileen Poulter (soprano) Mary Thomas (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) Wilfred Brown (tenor) Gerald English (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)

Benjamin Britten discusses with the writers of the libretto
E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier how they made an opera from Melville's story
: second broadcast