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by Martin Green
The Lord Peter Wimsey stories of Dorothy L. Sayers remain as widely read today as they were between the wars. Dr. Green argues that this continuing popularity is due not to their merit as detective stories but rather to their appeal to and analysis of British snobbery.
(Second broadcast)

Contributors

Speaker:
Martin Green

by Zbigniew Herbert
Translation by PAUL MAYEWSKI arranged and produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Music composed and directed by ROBERTOGERHARD
This play by the distinguished Polish poet presents the imprisonment and death of Socrates with modern implications.
Carteton Hobbs as Socrates with Betty Hardy and Robert Eddison
Citizens and disciples
Lewis Wilson , Preston Lockwood Philip Cunningham Martin Starkie Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Zbigniew Herbert
Translation By:
Paul Mayewski
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Unknown:
Carteton Hobbs
Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Robert Eddison
Unknown:
Lewis Wilson
Unknown:
Preston Lockwood
Unknown:
Philip Cunningham
Unknown:
Martin Starkie
Envoy:
Derek Birch
Gaoler:
Ronald Baddiley
Plato:
Robert Eddison
Xanthippe:
Betty Hardy
Crito:
Geoffrey Wincott
Guardian:
Roger Snowdon

talks to DERYCK COOKEabout the musical world of Vienna in the first decades of the present century and recalls personal impressions of Mahler, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Berg
He discusses the Viennese concert repertory as well as his part in the foundation of the I.S.C.M. Second broadcast

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