A comedy by JOHN MARSTON GEORGE CHAPMAN and BEN JONSON with Donald Wolfit , Charles Leno
June Tobin , and John Slater
Music by Christopher Whelen
SCENE: London and Thames-side, 1605
Touchstone, a tradesman of Goldsmith's Row, Cheapside, Donald Wolflt ; Quicksilver and Golding, his apprentices, Charles Leno and Hugh Dickson ; Gertrude and Mildred, his daughters. June Tobin and Freda Dowie ; Poldavy, a tailor, Tom Wat son: Sir Petronel Flash, Heron Carvic ; Mistress Touchstone, Marjorie Westbury; Security, a usurer, John Slater ; Winnifrid, his wife, Nervs Kerfoot ; Sindefy, a punk, Janette Richer: Bramble, a lawyer, Charles Simon ; Capt. Seagull, Michael Turner ; Drawer at the Blue Anchor Tavern, Billingsgate, Keith Williams ; Slitgut, butcher's apprentice, Michael Bates ; Master Wolf , keeper of the prison, Lawrence Baskeomb ; Holdfast, a turnkey, Tom Watson : with members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Desmond Dupre. (lute) and a section of the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (6.5-6.15 app.)
Gordon Jacob : Movements from A William Byrd Suite on a gramophone record
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Leon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier
English version by Arthur Jacobs Music by BERLIOZ
The action takes place in Rome in 1532 under Pope Clemens VII
BBC CHORUS
Trained by Alan G. Melville
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Producer, Bernard Keeffe
ACT 1
A magnificent hall in Balducci's palace: the day before Shrove Tuesday
Previously broadcast in June 1960
Frank Whitehead
Lecturer at the University of London Institute of Education speaks on the effect of advertising on the quality of our lives
Acr 2: The square of the Colonnai Shrove Tuesday
Three talks by G. Kitson Clark Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
A broadcast version of his Ford Lectures given at Oxford in 1960 3: The Political Revolution
ACT 3: Cellini's studio: Ash Wednesday
A selection made and introduced by Norman Nicholson
Including extracts from
The Prelude, Tintern Abbey The Cuckoo, and Resolution and Independence Read by Marius Goring
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1953)
Gerty Herzog (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Hans Rosbaud on a gramophone record
