Music drama by Wagner in three acts sung in German
Orchestra of the BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
Produced by Wolfgang Wagner
Act 1: The interior of Hunding's hut
A selection of unpublished poems by TANER BAYBARS
ZULFIKAR GHOSE
JOHN LEHMANN
SYLVIA PLATH
PETER PORTER
PETER REDGROVE
NATHANIEL TARN
Arranged and introduced by GEORGE MACBETH and read by the poets themselves
Act 2: A wild rocky place
by ASA BRIGGS 2: The Medium and the Audience
In this talk Professor Briggs, Dean of the School of Social Studies, University of Sussex, compares broadcasting with other communications media. He analyses their effect on public attitudes, tastes, and values, and considers what might have happened had the social control of these media been different.
Points made by Professor
Briggs in this and his preceding talk will provide the basis for a conversation between himself and Robert McKenzie , to be broadcast in the Third on November 28.
Act 3: On the top of a rocky mountain
Recording of a performance at this year's Bayreuth Festival: made available by courtesy of Bayerischer Rundfunk
' Gotterddmmerung ': Dec. 16
J. P. STERN , Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, speaks on the Austrian writer Robert Musil , whose comedy Vincent and the Girl Friend of Important Men is to be broadcast on Sunday at 8.50
Second broadcast
