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by Euripides newly translated by KENNETH CAVANDER
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN with Robert Hardy
Beatrix Lehmann , Nigel Stock
Singers: PAULINE TINSLEY MARJORIE WESTBURY
THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Second broadcast
Robert Hardy is In 'A Severed Head ' at the Criterion Theatre; Gerald James in ' Pickwick at the Saville Theatre. London followed by an interlude at 8.25

Contributors

Translated By:
Kenneth Cavander
Conducted By:
Christopher Whelen
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Singers:
Pauline Tinsley
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Unknown:
Gerald James
Dionysos:
Robert Hardy
Teiresias, a blind Theban prophet:
Arthur Ridley
Kadmos, formerly King of Thebes:
Cyril Shaps
Pentheus, King of Thebes:
Nigel Stock
Guard:
Garard Green
Herdsman:
Andrew Sachs
Servant:
Gerald James
Agave:
B Eatrix Lehmann
Bacchae:
Marjorie Westbury
Bacchae:
Valerie Kirkbright
Bacchae:
Hilda Kriseman
Bacchae:
Patricia Leventon
Bacchae:
Isabel Rennie
Bacchae:
Mary Wimbush
Bacchae:
Margaret Wolfit

A parable based on the medieval Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa by Juroh Motomasa (1431)
Libretto by WILLIAM PLOMER
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The English Opera Group presents the first broadcast performance
From the Aldeburgh Festival (bass) (baritone) (baritone) (tenor)
Monks playing Pilgrims:
JOHN BARROW, BERNARD DICKERSON, BRIAN ETHERIDGE, EDWARD EVANKO, JOHN KITCHINER, PETER LEEMING, PHILIP MAY, NIGEL ROGERS
Acolytes, one of whom plays the Spirit of the Boy: ROBERT CARR, BERNARD MORGAN, JOHN NEWTON, BRUCE WEBB
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Neill Sanders (horn) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Stuart Knussen (double-bass) Osian Ellis (harp) James Blades (percussion) Philip Ledger (organ)
Produced by COLIN GRAHAM

From Orford Church

The scene: a church by a Fenland river in early medieval times.

(Don Garrard broadcasts by permission of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

Contributors

Unknown:
Juroh Motomasa
Unknown:
William Plomer
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
John Barrow
Unknown:
Bernard Dickerson
Unknown:
Brian Etheridge
Unknown:
Edward Evanko
Unknown:
John Kitchiner
Unknown:
Peter Leeming
Unknown:
Philip May
Unknown:
Nigel Rogers
Unknown:
Robert Carr
Unknown:
Bernard Morgan
Unknown:
John Newton
Unknown:
Bruce Webb
Flute:
Richard Adeney
Horn:
Neill Sanders
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Double-Bass:
Stuart Knussen
Harp:
Osian Ellis
Harp:
James Blades
Produced By:
Colin Graham
Unknown:
Don Garrard
The Abbot:
Don Garrard
A monk playing the Ferryman:
John Shirley-Quirk
A monk playing the Traveller:
Bryan Drake
A monk playing the Mad-woman:
Peter Pears

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