The African
An opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE
English version, Geoffrey DUNN
Cast in order of singing:
(soprano) (mezzo) (bass) (bass) (tenor) (bass) (tenor) (tenor) (baritone) (mezzo) (tenor)and (bass)(bass)(tenor)
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Norman Nelson
Conducted by Leo WURMSER
Produced by GEOFFREY DUNN
The action takes place about 1497
Act 1: The Council Chamber at the Admiralty. Lisbon
by WILLIAM WALSH
Professor Walsh examines the work of the philosopher George Santayana. who was born a hundred years ago last December. and argues for a new recognition of his continuing significance as a writer.
Second oroadcas'
Act 2: A prison cell in Lisoon
Act 3: On board Don Pedro 's ship
Josephine Veasey and Forbes Robinson broadcast oy permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Co vent Garden. Ltd ; Raimtmd Herincx by permission or Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by John Clare
May: Part 1
A reading by HUGH DICKSON and BASIL JONES from the original unpublished manuscript of the poem edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summprfield
Introduced by Geoffrey SUMMERFIELD
Act 4: Outside a Hindu Temple Act 5 Sc. 1: The palace gardens
Sc. 2: A head and
Three talks by ARTHUR KOESTLER
Z: Games of the Underground In his second talk Mr. Koestler describes the relation of creative activity to the phenomenon of reculer pour mieux sauter.
by Norman Smithson
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
Three Preludes and Fugues
E ilat major. D major C sharp minor
(Well-Tempered Clavier. Book I)
Partita No 4, in D major played by STEPHEN Bishop (piano)
Second broadcast
