by HENRIK IBSEN translated by Ann Jellicoe
Margaret Leighton and John Clements with Robert Ayres , Michael Gwynn and Richard Fasco
The action of the play takes place during a summer in the 1880s in a small town on a fiord in northern Norway.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.5-9.15 app.) Sirènes (Nocturnes) (Debussy) BBC Women's Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski on a gramophone record

The first of two illustrated talks by Charles Mackenras in which he also conducts the BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Many compositions show an approach to orchestral style that is as original as the music itself. Charles Mackerras analyses various orchestral styles and shows how the character of a composer's music can be radically altered by orchestration as, for example, in Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana and Stravinsky's Pulcinella.