A weekly review of the arts
In this edition
LAURENCE KITCHIN discusses the British tradition of farce in the light of the English Stage Company's revival of Ben Travers' A Cuckoo in the Nest, which was first performed in 1925 at the Aldwych Theatre. London
HENRY LIVINGS whose new play EM, ' a wild weird farce,' has its world premiere at the Aldwych this week, in a conversation with H. A. L. CRAIG
A play for radio by Samuel Beckett
with Patrick Magee as Voice and Denys Hawthorne as Opener
with music composed by Marcel Mihalovici
(Second broadcast)
played by PETER HURFORD organ of St. Albans Abbey on a gramophone record
A dramatic monologue by Robert Browning
Last of four weekly readings by MARIUS GORING
Mass: Douce memoire
9.39* Penitential Psalm No. 1:
Domine. ne in furore tuo
CANTORES IN ECCLESIA
Conductor, MICHAEL HOWARD
From St. George-the-Martyr, Queen Square, London
Third in a series of seven programmes of music by Lassus
Three talks based on the Stanton lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge in 1963 by RENFORD BAMBROUGH. Fellow of St. John's College 1: Homer and the Bishop of Woolwich
Mr. Bambrough considers the effect on theology of recent talks on the concept of the transcendental.
Second broadcast
Pickwickian Christianity: November 3
played by SUSAN MCGAW