contralto with Viola Tunnard harpsichord

talking to
David Sylvester
'I think the elimination of the object ... came out of the use of paint. The paint itself, the thickness of the paint, seemed to squeeze out the object .. says Moynihan about the work he was doing in 1934. Then, in his early twenties, he was producing a kind of painting akin to the Abstract Impressionism that was to become internationally current two decades later. Subsequently Moynihan became a Royal Academician, a successful portrait painter. For the last five years he has been an abstract painter again.

by ARTHUR ADAMOV
Translated by Peter Meyer with Maurice Denham , Hugh Burden This play, first performed in French in 1953, is a short, claustrophobic study of the extent to which we depend on others for the sense of our own identity.
Adapted and produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
: second broadcast

Benthien String Quartet Ulrich Benthien (violin)
Rudolf Maria Müller (violin) Martin Ledig (viola)
Wolfram Hentschel (cello)

Peter Redgrove introduces a selection of his own poems
Readers:
Janine Hill. Anthony Jacobs. and Gary Watson