A Ballad-play (1788) being the second part of The Beggar's Opera by JOHN GAY with Cy Grant
Jane Wenham , Edric Connor
The traditional ballads newly arranged by Christopher Whelen
THE Introduction:
Scene- The stage of the Playhouse, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
POLLY- an opera: Scene: In the West Indies
Players, servants, pirates, guards piaved bv members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company with the Ambrosian Singers
Tessa Robbins (violin) Robin Wood (piano)
Last of five programmes including Bach's six works for unaccompanied violin.
George MacBeth introduces a selection of his own poems, read by himself and Hugh Dickson