1896-1941
An Irish portrait of the poet, dramatist, and managing director of the Abbey Theatre drawn from the memories of his Dublin contemporaries by W. R. RODGERS
Those taking part: FRANK O'CONNOR JOHN CHICHESTER
ALEC NEWMAN , SEAN O'SULLIVAN ROBERT DOHERTY A.J..LEVENTHAL
DONAGH MACDONAGH
MONK Gibbon, PADRAIC COLUM CECIL SALKELD, AUSTIN CLARKE CATHAL O'SHANNON PADRAIC FALLON
MRS. MAY HIGGINS
Narrator,
W. R. Rodgers
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Duo QUILLANCIA
Evelyn Rothwell (oboe)
Valda Aveling (harpsichord)
An assessment of the role of the director in the contemporary cinema by PAUL MAYERSBERG with the voices of ALEXANDRE ASTRUC
Richard BROOKS , ROGER CORMAN Jacques Demy , BLAKE EDWARDS JEAN-Luc GODARD
ALFRED HITCHCOCK , SETH HOLT FRITZ LANG , JOSEPH LOSEY
ANTHONY MANN , ROBERT PARRISH and ALAIN RESNAIS
Produced by PHILIP FRENCH
on Record
WALTER GIESEKING (piano) playing
Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel)
Ondine; Le gibet; Scarbo
Recorded In 1938 (Scarbo) and 1954 (Ondine. Le sibet)
by John Clare
February:
Valentine Eve-a tale
A reading by HUGH DICKSON from the original unpublished manuscript of the poem Edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield
Introduced by ERIC ROBINSON followed by an Interlude at 10 50