Listings
: THE FIRST STAGE
A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580sArranged for broadcasting ana introduced by John Barton
Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes
Full details of the thirteen programmes in the series are contained in The First Stage, a handbook by John Barton which may be obtained through newsagents and booksellers or post free by crossed postal order for 2s. 6d. from [address removed]
8-Interludes: The More Group
'Calisto and Melibaea' by John Rastell (printed c. 1630)
4 John John the Husband, Tyb the Wife, and Sir John the Priest' by John Heywood (between 1621 and 1531)
'The Play of the Weather' by John Heywood (between 1521 and 1531) Music composed by John Hotchkis with the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by the composer
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: ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
BBC Symphony Orchestra(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Part 1
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: THE BENGAL ARMY
by H. T. Lambrick, c.i.E.Fellow of Oriel College. Oxford
Several years before the mutinous outbreak, ' A Bombay Officer ' published a series of pamphlets on the Bengal Army. ' There is more danger to our Indian Empire,' he wrote in 1850, 'from the state of the Bengal Army ... than from all other causes combined.'
Mr. Lambrick, who has recently completed the official biography of General John Jacob (the Bombay officer), discusses the reasons why the outbreak occurred among the regular Indian troops of the East India Company's Bengal Army, and why the Bombay and Madras Armies remained almost completely unaffected. The Muslims and the ' Mutin¡¡: by A. R. Mallick : May 20
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: 'THE SPINSTER'S TALE'
A poem of New Hampshire by Margaret Stanley-WrenchNarrator, Guy Kingsley Poynter
With Ella Milne , Jane Jordan Rogers
Ronald Wilson , Don Withrow
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: PRECURSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF GUILLAUME DUFAY
A programme of early fifteenth-century French and Italian musicDevised and edited by Gilbert Reaney
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano)
Eileen Poulter (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Peter Graeme (cor anglais) John Alexandra (bassoon)
Desmond Duprt
(lute and viola da gamba)
George Malcolm (chamber organ)
Directed by Denis Stevens
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: NO ORCHIDS FOR MADAME BOVARY
by Olivier ToddMadame Bovary was published in 1857.
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