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: FRANK AND FERNSEED
A cautionary fairy tale for progressivesWritten for radio by Ann Jameson
Read by Anthony Jacobs
: second broadcast
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: GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OPERA L'ELISIR D'AMORE
An opera in two actsLibretto by Felice Romani
Music by DONIZETTI sung in Italian
A notary, servants, peasants, soldiers
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader. Raymond Cohen Conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO who also plays the continuo Producer, Franco Zeffirelli
Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
The action takes place in a country village
Act 1
Scene I: Adina's farm
Scene 2: The village square
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: THE ODYSSEY
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets10: Eurycleia (Books xix and xx) Translated by Donald Davie
Read by Gary Watson
Preliminaries to Battle and The Bow (Books xx and xxi)
Translated by Anthony Thwaite Read by Patrick Garland
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
: second broadcast
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: HAYDN
String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 played by the Prague City QuartetBretislav Novotny (violin) Karel Pribyl (violin)
Hubert Simacek (viola) Zdenek Konicek (cello) on a gramophone record
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: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN THE U.S.S.R.
MARGARET MILLER speaks on the preoccupation of the Soviet press with the activities in all sectors of the economy of people the press calls idlers and speculators.followed by an interlude at 7.50
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: L'ELISIR D'AMORE
Acr 2Scene 1: Inside the farmhouse Scene 2: The village'square
: DEAD SOULS
The novel by NICOLAI GOGOL in a dramatic version by ARTHUR ADAMOVTranslated by PETER MEYE & Music from the original French stage production composed by CLAUDE LocHY with Kenneth Griffith , Alec McCowen The Author, Rolf Lefebvre ; Selifan, Toke Townley ; Pat-el Ivanovich Chichi kov, Kenneth Griffith ; Anton Antonovich Matiilov, James Thomason ; Ivan Grigorie vich, the chief magistrate, Charles Leno ; Ivan Andreutsch , the postmaster, Hugh Manning ; Mikhail Semionovich Sobakie vich, Mark Dignam ; Anna Grigorievna , Betty Linton ; Sofia Ivanovna, Eithne Dunne ; Nozdriov, Alec McCowen ; Nastasia Petrovna Korobochka , Nan Marriott -Watson; Plioushkin, Malcolm Hayes ; Cyril Anastasievich , the bishop, Philip Leaver ; Antipator Zakharievich , the public prosecutor, Derek Birch ; Alexei Ivanovich , the chief of police, Philip Morant ; The Governor's Wife, Gladys Spencer ; Semion Semionovich , the inspector of medical services, Arthur Gomez ; The Governor, Charles Simon ; with Barbara Mitchell and John Bryning Arranged for broadcasting and produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL : second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (10.0-10.5 app.) Four of Lyadov's
Eight Russian Folk Songs played by the Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on a gramophone record
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