A cautionary fairy tale for progressives
Written for radio by Ann Jameson
Read by Anthony Jacobs
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An opera in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani
Music by DONIZETTI sung in Italian
A notary, servants, peasants, soldiers
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader. Raymond Cohen Conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO who also plays the continuo Producer, Franco Zeffirelli
Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
The action takes place in a country village
Act 1
Scene I: Adina's farm
Scene 2: The village square

Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
10: Eurycleia (Books xix and xx) Translated by Donald Davie
Read by Gary Watson
Preliminaries to Battle and The Bow (Books xx and xxi)
Translated by Anthony Thwaite Read by Patrick Garland
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
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String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 played by the Prague City Quartet
Bretislav Novotny (violin) Karel Pribyl (violin)
Hubert Simacek (viola) Zdenek Konicek (cello) on a gramophone record

MARGARET MILLER speaks on the preoccupation of the Soviet press with the activities in all sectors of the economy of people the press calls idlers and speculators.
followed by an interlude at 7.50

Acr 2
Scene 1: Inside the farmhouse Scene 2: The village'square

The novel by Nicolai Gogol in a dramatic version by Arthur Adamov
Translated by Peter Meyer Music from the original French stage production composed by Claud Lochy
with Kenneth Griffith, Alec McCowen

The Author, Rolf Lefebvre; Selifan, Toke Townley; Patel Ivanovich Chichikov, Kenneth Griffith; Anton Antonovich Matiilov, James Thomason; Ivan Grigorievich, the chief magistrate, Charles Leno; Ivan Andreutsch, the postmaster, Hugh Manning; Mikhail Semionovich Sobakievich, Mark Dignam; Anna Grigorievna, Betty Linton; Sofia Ivanovna, Eithne Dunne; Nozdriov, Alec McCowen; Nastasia Petrovna Korobochka , Nan Marriott-Watson; Plioushkin, Malcolm Hayes; Cyril Anastasievich, the bishop, Philip Leaver; Antipator Zakharievich, the public prosecutor, Derek Birch; Alexei Ivanovich, the chief of police, Philip Morant; The Governor's Wife, Gladys Spencer; Semion Semionovich, the inspector of medical services, Arthur Gomez; The Governor, Charles Simon; with Barbara Mitchell and John Bryning

Arranged for broadcasting and produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

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During the Interval (10.0-10.5 app.) Four of Lyadov's Eight Russian Folk Songs played by the Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on a gramophone record