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Patricia Johnson contralto
Ronald Dowd tenor
Aliberto Remedios tenor
Ra.imund Herincx baritone
Roger Stalman bass-baritone
Donald Wolfit speaker
BBC Men's Chorus
Sadler's Wells Men's Chorus Chorus-Master. David Tod Boyd BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis
From the Royal Albert Hall , London Part 1 conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Contributors

Contralto:
Patricia Johnson
Tenor:
Ronald Dowd
Tenor:
Aliberto Remedios
Bass-Baritone:
Roger Stalman
Bass-Baritone:
Donald Wolfit
Chorus-Master:
David Tod Boyd
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

by Martin Wells
Demonstrator in Zoology. University of Cambridge
Snails originated in the sea, but have since colonised the land. Their ability to feed on plants directly gave them a good start; but, even so, the business of being a garden snail is fraught with very considerable difficulty.

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wells

Part 2: Stravinsky conducted by Colin Davis
OEDIPUS REX
Colin Davis, David Tod Boyd , Patricia Johnson , Alberto Remedios, and Raimund Herincx broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company See page 42
Stravinsky's 'Les Noces ': Friday at 9.15

Contributors

Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Oedipus Bex
Unknown:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
David Tod Boyd
Unknown:
Patricia Johnson
Oedipus:
Ronald Dowd
Jocasta:
Patricia Johnson
Creon:
Raimund Herincx
Tiresias:
Roger Stalman
The Shepherd:
Alberto Remedios
The Messenger:
Raimund Herincx
The Speaker:
Donald Wolfit

A dialogue by DARYL HINE
As they climb a hill in a park in a city in Canada, a husband seeks assurance from his young wife that (like Alcestis) she would be willing to die for him. At the top of the hill they come to a cave, an abandoned excavation..... Production by DouGLAS CLEVERDON : second broadcast

Contributors

Dialogue By:
Daryl Hine
Production By:
Douglas Cleverdon
He:
William Squire
She:
Diana Maddox

Third Programme

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