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La casa sulV acqua by UGO BETTI
Translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed , with Peter Woodthorpe , Judi Dench and Jack May
This is Betti's second play. The scene is set in an old family-house out on the waters of a wintry lake in northern Italy. Luca, Peter Woodthorpe ; Orsola and Benedetto, servants, Gladys Spencer and Julian Somers ; Marta. Francesco's wife, Betty Hardy ; Elli, Judi Dench ; Francesco, Luca's elder brother,Jack May
Production by RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ugo Betti
Unknown:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Jack May
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Unknown:
Julian Somers
Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Jack May
Production By:
Raymond Raikes

An opera in a prologue and two acts
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper after the story by Henry James
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Cast
English Opera Group Orchestra CONDUCTED BY THE COMPOSER on gramophone records
The action takes place in and around Bly,
-a country-house in the East of England, in the middle of the last century. ACT 1
Prologue; Scene 1, The Journey; Scene 2, The Welcome; Scene 3, The Letter; Scene 4, The Tower; Scene S, The Window; Scene 6, The Lesson; Scent 7, The Lake; Scene 8, At Night

Contributors

Unknown:
Myfanwy Piper
Story By:
Henry James
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
The Prologue:
Peter Pean
The Governess:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Young children in her charge: Miles:
David Hemmings
Young children in her charge : Flora:
Olive Dyer
Mrs Grose, the housekeeper:
Joan Cross
Quint, a former manservant:
Peter Pears
Miss Jeseel, a former governess:
Arda Mandikian

by Eugene Rostow, Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, Yale University

No legal system can erect an unbreakable wall between the individual and the public interest, valid at all times. Young people may dress up in uniforms and play at being fascists, and this may seem harmless folly in peacetime; but in the thirties, say, when clouds gathered, are we to say that the State should have taken no action against such threats?

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Eugene Rostow

A discussion in which Nathalie Sarraute , Alain Robbe-Grillet , and Marguerite Duras are questioned by William Golding and Rayner Heppenstall
What are the aims of each of these French new novelists? Have form and detail for them taken the place of philosophical, political, or religious content? Is their thinking communicable at all to English novelists?

Contributors

Unknown:
Nathalie Sarraute
Unknown:
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Unknown:
Marguerite Duras
Unknown:
William Golding
Unknown:
Rayner Heppenstall

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