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by NAOYA UCHIMURA
Translated by Geoffrey Bownas Music by Wataru Saito with Trevor Martin and Frank Duncan
Marathon was one of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation entries for the 1959 Italia Prize. It is the story-in words, music, and effects—of an unknown athlete's attempt to become Japan's representative in the Olympic marathon.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company James Blades (solo percussion) Marjorie Westbury (soprano) and a section of the Ambrosian Singers
Music conducted by Max Saunders Production by ANTHONY THWAITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Naoya Uchimura
Translated By:
Geoffrey Bownas
Music By:
Wataru Saito
Unknown:
Trevor Martin
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
James Blades
Soprano:
Marjorie Westbury
Conducted By:
Max Saunders
Production By:
Anthony Thwaith
Jiro Honda:
Trevor Martin
Sasabe -:
Frank Duncan
Engineer:
Douglas Storm
Honda's father:
George Hagan
Honda's mother:
Mary O'Farrell

Two talks by W. H. Thorpe
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge These talks are a broadcast version of Dr. Thorpe's Eddington Memorial Lecture of November 1960.
In the second he considers the extent to which the working of the human mind, particularly in its appreciation of ultimate values, is illuminated by a study of animal psychology.

Contributors

Unknown:
W. H. Thorpe

Third Programme

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