Devised by:
Denis
Stevens
Introduced By:
Jeremy
Noble
Counter-tenor:
Alfred
Deller
Counter-tenor:
John
Whitworth
Tenor:
Gerald
English
Tenor:
Edgar
Fleet
Trumpet:
Philip
Jones
Trumpet:
Roy
Copestake
Trombone:
Evan
Watkin
Cor Anglais:
Leonard
Brain
Bassoon:
Cecil
James
Bassoon:
Joseph
Castaldini
Organ:
Charles
Spinks
Choir:
The Ambrosian
Singers
Conductor:
Denis
Stevens
by Ronald Firbank
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Caprice was published during the first world war; but the world it reflects is that of the late Edwardian era, seen through the distorting mirror of Ronald Firbank's fantastic imagination. As a novelist, Firbank created a style of writing that remains unique. 'Just as in the autumn,' wrote Sir Osbert Sitwell, 'the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a fine mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar highly stylised but intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word.'
Contributors
Author:
Ronald
Firbank
Adapted for broadcasting by/Producer:
Douglas
Cleverdon
Narrator:
Robert
Eddison
Sarah Sinquier:
Janette
Richer
Canon Sinquier:
Richard
Goolden
Mrs Sinquier:
Susan
Richmond
Mrs Sixsmith:
Lydia
Sherwood
Harold Weathercock:
Frank
Duncan
Ernest Stubbs:
Auan
McClelland
Sir Oliver Dawtry:
Norman
Shelley
Mrs Mary:
Mary
O'Farrell
May Mant:
Penny
Morrell
Mr Smee:
Norman
Shelley
Mrs Smee:
Vivienne
Chatterton
Miss Valer:
Susan
Richmond
William Pleeth (cello)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate ) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. Steven Staryk )
Conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt
(Also broadcast on Sunday)
Contributors
Cellist:
William
Pleeth
Singers:
BBC
Chorus
Chorus-Master:
Leslie
Woodgate
Musicians:
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader:
Steven
Staryk
Conductor:
Berthold
Goldschmidt
by Norman Gibbs, Chichele Professor of History of War at All Souls College, Oxford
Four talks on the problems of civil-military relationships as they have developed in the major states of the world: based on papers read last autumn at the Universities of Oxford and London.
A talk on the more recent history of the Ministry of Defence and its future problems.
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