An opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten
Libretto after Shakespeare by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten
Cast in order of singing:
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Meredith Davies
Act 1
A wood outside Athens

G. H. BANTOCK offers a comment on the Robbins Report and the Reith Lectures. He considers that both fail to appreciate the cultural needs of a mass industrial society.
Second broadcast

Act 2
The wood

LAURENCE KITCHIN analyses the successes, and criticises the limitations, of attempts to adapt the plays of Shakespeare for the cinema and television

Act 3
The wood, early next morning, and (later) Theseus's palace
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

A monologue for broadcasting by Tyrone Guthrie
As I told you, Mavis got him when she took her holidays that year going this cruise ... with BETTY HARDY
Produced by JOHN Gibson

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