Opera by Leos Janacek based on the play of the same name by KAREL CAPEK
English translation by NORMAN TUCKER
From Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Cast in order of singing:
MARGARET GALE (soprano)
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Cordon Mackie
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader, Barry Collins
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Producer, John Blatchley
The action takes place in a Continental city in the year 1907.
ACT 1: The clerk's room at Dr. Kolenaty's
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by NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
1: The Situation in Italy
Is Mannerism a style of the sixteenth century? Is it the style of c. 1520-1600? Professor Pevsner. who was among the first to analyse Mannerism, considers these Questions in three talks which start from Italian art and architecture and then deal with the specific problems of Elizabethan architecture and the probability or otherwise of Mannerism as a style developing in Elizabethan England. England: February 27

ACT 2: The stage of a large theatre

Vernon Scannell, poet and novelist, talks about boxing from his experience as both writer and pugilist.
(Second broadcast)

Act 3: A room in a hotel

Since before the first world war an important role has been played in the literary world by the smaller magazine, from Blast to New Verse and from Outyosts to Listen. Has it still a part to play in the development of poetry and avant-garde prose in the 1960s?
† MARTIN Bax , editor of Ambit,
ALAN RIDDFELL , editor of Lines, and JON SILKIN , editor of Stand, discuss this question with GEORGE MACBETH

Annees de Pelerinage played by Louis KENTNER (piano) on a gramophone record