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A weekly review of the arts
This edition includes:
DAVID SYLVESTER discussing his recent exhibition Drawing into Painting with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH and ADRIAN SMITH
IAN FLETCHER on Patrocleia, Christopher Logue 's adaptation of the sixteenth book of the Iliad
DERWENT MAY on some recent developments in the Polish cinema
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Smith
Unknown:
Ian Fletcher
Unknown:
Christopher Logue
Introduced By:
George MacBeth

BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE 'S JOURNAL of his Embassy from Cromwell to Queen Kristina (1653-1654)
Arranged with a commentary by RUTH SPALDING
' Today deep thoughts resolve with me to drench
In mirth, that after no repenting draws;
Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause.
And what the Swede intends, and what the French '
MILTON, Sonnet XXII
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bulstrode Whitelocke
Commentary By:
Ruth Spalding
Produced By:
Terence Tiller
Commentator:
Ruth Spalding
Whitelocke:
Carleton Hobbs
Pickering:
Noel Johnson
Cromwell:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mrs Whitelocke:
Olive Gregg
Cooke:
Norman Shelley
Kristina:
Nicolette Bernard
Piementelle:
Denis Goacher
Chancellor:
Wilfred Babbage

PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
MARY THOMAS (soprano)
JEAN ALLISTER (contralto)
NOREEN WILLETT (contralto) EDGAR FLEET (tenor)
JOHN MCCARTHY (tenor) JOHN FROST (bass)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)

Contributors

Soprano:
Patricia Clark
Contralto:
Noreen Willett
Tenor:
Edgar Fleet
Tenor:
John McCarthy
Bass:
John Frost
Bass:
Christopher Keyte

Three talks by S. C. LESLIE 2: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and Continental Rules
Mr. Leslie's general theme is that planning is replacing competition in modern large-scale industry. In this talk, after looking at existing competition in Britain and the U.S.A., he concludes that the Rome Treaty is more likely to foster monopoly than to check it.
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
S. C. Leslie

Third Programme

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