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Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer BpeciaMy made by contemporary poets
1: The Cyclops BOOK IX
Translated by Hug'h Gordon Porteus
Read by Denis McCarthy
Series devisied by Louis MacNetca Produced by Anthony Tbwaite
: second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Porteus
Read By:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Louis MacNetca
Produced By:
Anthony Tbwaite

Oratorio by HAYDN after a poem by James Thomson
BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate English Chamber Orchestra Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by STANLEY Pope
Continuo
Martin Isepp (forteplano) and Terence Weil (cello) Part 1
Spring; Summer

Contributors

Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted By:
Stanley Pope
Conducted By:
Terence Weil

by Harold Nicolson
A personal reassessment of Tennyson by Patric Dickinson has recently been broadcast in the Third Programme. This talk is an answer to the attack by Mr. Dickinson on some of the views expressed by Sir Harold in a book written almost forty years before.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Nicolson
Unknown:
Patric Dickinson

by PETER GURNEY with NSgel Stock
John Shaw knocks on the door of the house where he lived as a boy, but it remains closed to him. Behind it is the answer to the mystery of his childhood dream-world.
John, Nigel Stock ; as a boy, David Robinson ; Luke, his father, Trevor Martin ; Sarah, his mother, Hilda Schroder; Mary, his sister, Nerys Kerfoot; Mr. Dumps, his friend, Norman Shelley; Mr. Blackhurst, John Sharp; Police Inspector, Wilfred Babbage: and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Music by the Radiophonic Worksbop Production by ROBIN MIDGLEY
: third broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Gurney
Unknown:
John Shaw
Unknown:
Nigel Stock
Unknown:
David Robinson
Unknown:
Trevor Martin
Production By:
Robin Midgley

Third Programme

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