An opera in two acts
Adapted from Shakespeare French text and music by BERLIOZ
English version by Geoffrey Dunn
Cast
BBC NORTHERN Singers
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by Geoffrey Dunn
Acr 1: The grounds of the governor's palace in Messina

A reply to
Professor J. M. Cameron by E. P. Thompson
Last autumn Professor Cameron gave three talks on the New Left in Britain in the course of which he criticised its ' vestigial Bolshevism ' and dismissed its revolutionary notions as the opiates of groups of intellectuals.' In this reply E P Thompson , a member of the editorial board of New Left Review, questions Professor Cameron's account of the movement and suggests that he u I still caught up within the compulsive pattern of pessimism and of ideological deterrence which is the Western antithesis to Stalinism.'

Act 2: A large hall in the palace.

Bernard Leach talks to his fellow potter Michael Cardew and to John Lowe of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Bernard Leach has been the greatest tingle influence in English pottery in our time. Born in Hong Kong, trained in Japan, practising his craft in St. Ives, his dream has been the marriage of two cultures. Has he made English potters lean too heavily on oriental influences?