with VALENTIN GHEORGHIU (piano) Conducted by GEORGES GEORGESCU
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1

Translated from the Old English of the Exeter Book by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND read by PENELOPE LEE and ALAN WHEATLEY
These two poems, dating probably from the beginning of the eighth century, are among the earliest dramatic monologues written in England. As psychological studies in male and female behaviour, they anticipate Browning by a thousand years.

Part 2: Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique: episodes in the life of an artist Passions
At the Ball Countryside
March to the Scaffold Witches' Sabbath

Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
The story of a painter with Jon Rollason and Elizabeth Morgan
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Norman Wynne is in ' Alfie ' at the Duchess Theatre, London Second broadcast
Persons from Porlock was Louis MacNeice 's last work for radio. It was originally broadcast at the end of August, a few days before his death.

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