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Act 1
Scene 1: The forest: summer
Scene 2: The yard of the Forester's cottage: autumn

THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
in the Third Programme
An Opera in three acts by Leos Janacek after the story by Rudolf Tesnohlidek, in a new English version by Norman Tucker

HUMANS
The Forester (baritone): NEIL EASTON
His wife: RITA HUNTER
Popik, his son (treble): RONALD SUTTON-JONES
Frantik, Pepik's friend (treble) STEPHEN ALEXANDER
The Schoolmaster (tenor)... RAYMOND NILSSON
The Parson (bass) CHARLES DRAPER
Pasek, the innkeeper (baritona)...LEIGH MAURICE
His wife (soprano) JOAN DAVIES
Harasla, a poacher (baritona) JULIAN MOYLE

ANIMALS
The Badger (bass) CHARLES DRAPER
A cricket (treble) DAVID HOVELL
A grasshopper (treble) ROGER MAY
A mosquito (treble) RONALD OATWAY
A baby Frog (treble) ROGER BOOTHBY
Sharpears the Vixen, as cub (soprano) SYLVIA HANKIN
Sharpears, grown-up (soprano). JUNE BRONHILL
Lapak, the Forester's dog (tenor) RAYMOND NILSSON
The Rooster (soprano) SOO-BEE LEE
The Hen (soprano) SHEILA AMIT
Goldenmane, a Fox (tenor) KEVIN MILLER
A screech-owl (mezzo-soprano) RITA HUNTER
A canary (soprano) DOROTHY NASH
A woodpecker (tenor) NEVILLE GRIFFITHS

SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, David Tod-Boyd
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Ludlow
Conducted by Colin Davis
Producer, Colin Graham

FROM SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE, LONDON AT 7.30

The action takes place in and near a forest in Czechoslovakia

by John Hale of Jesus College, Oxford
A new translation of Machiavelli's The Prince was published last month.

Act 2
Scene 1: The forest: autumn
Scene 2: The village inn
Scene 3: The forest: summer

by Robert Conquest

Mr. Conquest suggests that science-fiction may be meeting a deficiency which has weakened Western literature for the last 200 years, the need for a tradition of novels concerned mainly with ideas rather than characters. His thoughts are prompted by Kingsley Amis's recent survey New Maps of Hell.

Act 3
Scene 1: The forest: the following spring
Scene 2: The village inn
Scene 3: The forest: spring

by Nicolai Gogol
A radio play by Joan Littlewood
Based on the translation by Constance Garnett
with sound and music by Roberto Gerhard
(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on April 22)

Dix pieces pittoresques played by Angus Morrison (piano)