The setting is post-war Europe; the theme, the encounter be tween poet and death. A film script by Jean Coctea u
Translated and adapted for radio by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with Hugh Burden
Muriel Pavlow
Catherine Dolan
Robert Rietty
Other parts played by Adrian Brine , Jeanne le Bars Fiona Nicholson
Elisabeth Proud. Gillian Webb and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Third broadcast

St. Matthew Passion sung by DIETRICH FISCHER -DIESKAU baritone as The Evangelist with INGRID SCHULZ and LORE FISCHER-DIESKAU soprano
HANS-DIETER RODEWALD and HARRY DSCHITZKI tenor
JOHANNES RICHTER and UDO STEINHAUSER bass
THE Hugo DISTLER CHOIR
Conducted by Klaus FISCHER-DIESKAU on a gramophone record

by STUART HAMPSHIRE
Professor of Philosophy in the University of London
Professor Hampshire speaks on the Marxist critic Georg Lukas, whose book The Historical Novel has recently been published in this country. Second broadcast