A comedy by John MARSTON
GEORGE CHAPMAN and BEN JONSON with Donald Wolfit , Charles Leno June Tobin. John Slater
Music by Christopher Whelen
Eastward Ho! was produced in 1605 at the Blackfriars Theatre, Thames-side. The title echoes the cry of boat-men on the river and, as Swinburne wrote, ' in no other play of the time do we get such a true taste of the old City life.'
Characters
Other parts played: by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Desmond Dupré (lute) A section of the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer
Arranged for broadcasrting and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
: third broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.5-9.16 app.) Gordon Jacob
Movements from
A William Byrd Suite played by the Eastman Wind Ensemble conducted by Frederick Fennell on a gramophone record
Mustca da Camera Harold Clarke (flute)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin) Keith cumminge (viola) Jov Hall (cello) Hubert Dawkee
(harpsichord and fortepiano)
A talk about alignments and influences in West Africa by Lionel Fleming
BBC Commonwealth Correspondent
Mr. Fleming—on the basis of his recent journeyings up and down the West African coast from Ghana to Senegal-talks about the kaleidoscopic political negotiations among the West African states and about some of the personalities behind them.
