† ALASTAIR HETHERINGTON talks to BRIAN BLAKE about the press in general and The Guardian in particular on the occasion of his moving-editorially-to London
An autobiographical fragment written for radio and narrated by PATRIC DICKINSON
Other voices include:
Derek Birch , William Devlin
Denis Goacher. Carleton Hobbs Pauline Letts , David March
Mary O'Farrell , Norman Shelley and Geoffrey Wincott
This programme attempts to tell what takes place in one hour of time in the life of its author-a poet-on an autumn morning as he sits at his study window overlooking Rye Bay. Other voices heard are extensions of thoughts and feeling of facts and imaginings.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Third broadcast
The Passion according to St. Matthew
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
RENAISSANCE SINGERS
Conductor, MICHAEL HOWARD
Introduced by Michael Howard
Y From Christ Church,
Flood Street, Chelsea, London This. the earliest known dramatic setting of the Passion, was composed towards the end of the fifteenth century.
by John Clare
March
A reading by Hugh Dickson and Basil Jones from' the original unpublished manuscript of the poem edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield
Introduced by Eric Robinson
Fiinf Stiicke im Volkston
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) on a gramophone record