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A series of ten weekly programmes
6: THE ARTS IN CHINA TODAY A conversation between
Sir Hugh Casson
Sir Herbert Read and Peter Swann
Senior Assistant Keeper at the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford
Of all the countries where Communism has triumphed none has a more ancient civilisation than China. Yet comparatively little has been heard of how much pf that civilisation has survived and, in particular, about the place of the arts in modern China.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson
Unknown:
Sir Herbert Read
Unknown:
Peter Swann

by W. B. YEATS
Calvary
The Resurrection
Songs and incidental music composed by JOHN BUCKLAND conducted by Eric Wetherell The plays produced by JOHN GIBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Composed By:
John Buckland
Conducted By:
Eric Wetherell
Produced By:
John Gibson
First musician,:
Philip Talfryn
Second musician:
Philip Todd
Speaker:
Godfrey Kenton
Lazarus:
Gabriel Woolf
The Anointed One:
Nigel Stock
Judas:
Allan McClelland
First soldier:
William Eedle
Second soldier:
Haydn Jones
Third soldier:
Michael Turner
First singer:
Philip Todd
Young man:
Philip Talfryn
The Hebrew:
John Glen
The Greek:
Peter Claughton
The Syrian:
Hugh Manning

Portia Wind Ensemble
A string ensemble with Maria Korchinska (harp)
Conducted by James Verity first broadcast performance CONDUCTED BY the COMPOSER
The second of two programmes including chamber music by Seiber and Frankel.

Contributors

Harp:
Maria Korchinska
Conducted By:
James Verity

Third Programme

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