Listings
John Carol Case (baritone) Frederick Stone (piano)
Contributors
Piano:
Frederick
Stone
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
12: The Killing of the Wooers BOOK XXII
Translated by Hugh Gordon Porteus
Read by Patrick Garland
Recognition by Penelope BOOK XXIII
Translated by Peter Green
Read by Gary Watson
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
Contributors
Translated By:
Hugh Gordon
Porteus
Read By:
Patrick
Garland
Unknown:
Penelope Book
Xxiii
Translated By:
Peter
Green
Read By:
Gary
Watson
Unknown:
Louis
MacNeice
Produced By:
Anthony
Thwaite
Eileen Broster Carlina Carr
Susan Tunnell pianos
Welbeck String Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor, Maurice Miles
Part 1
Contributors
Unknown:
Eileen
Broster
Unknown:
Carlina
Carr
Pianos:
Susan
Tunnell
Leader:
Vera
Kantrovitch
Conductor:
Maurice
Miles
by Alec Nove
Reader in Russian
Social and Economic Studies in the University of London
Following the British Trade Fair held in Moscow recently, Alec Nove speaks about the difficulties of expanding this trade faster.
Contributors
Unknown:
Alec
Nove
by JEAN COCTEAU
with Coral Browne as Jocasta, Albert Finney as Oedipus and Miles Malleson, Catherine Dolan, Heron Carvic
English version by CARL WILDMAN edited for radio in collaboration with H. B. Fortuin
Music by TRISTRAM CARY
' Listener, wound up here to the full so that the spring will slowly unwind the whole length of a human life, is one of the most perfect machines constructed by the infernal gods for the mathematical destruction of a human being.*
How Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx and, through parricide and incest, is made to face human destiny in a world which could be ancient Greece or modern Europe.
Characters in order of speaking
Music with special effects by the Radiophonic Workshop conducted by the composer
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.26-9.35 app.) Movements from Andre Jolivet 's Delphic Suite played by an instrumental ensemble directed by the composer on a gramophone record
Contributors
Unknown:
Jean
Cocteau
Unknown:
Coral
Browne
Unknown:
Albert
Finney
Unknown:
Miles
Malleson
Unknown:
Catherine
Dolan
Unknown:
Heron
Carvic
Unknown:
Carl
Wildman
Unknown:
H. B.
Fortuin
Music By:
Tristram
Cary
Production By:
H. B.
Fortuin
Unknown:
Andre
Jolivet
The Voice:
Douglas
Storm
The Young Soldier:
Nicholas
Edmett
The Soldier:
Tom
Watson
The Captain:
John
Bryning
Jocasta, the Queen, widow of Laius:
Coral
Browne
Tiresias, a soothsayer nearly blind:
Miles
Malleson
The Ghost of Laius, the dead King:
Charles
Simon
The Sphinx:
Catherine
Dolan
Anubis, Egyptian god of the Dead:
Heron
Carvic
TheTheban Matron:
Kathleen
Helme
Oedipus, son of Laius:
Albert
Finney
A Drunk:
Julian
Somers
Creon, brother of Laius:
Wilfred
Babbage
The Messenger from Corinth:
Keith
Buckley
The Shepherd of Laius:
Arthur
Ridley
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus:
Judy
Horn
String Quartet No. 3 played by the Guilet String Quartet Daniel Guilet (violin) Henry Siegl (violin)
William Schoen (viola) David Soyer (cello) on a gramophone record
Contributors
Violin:
Daniel
Guilet
Violin:
Henry
Siegl
Viola:
William
Schoen
Cello:
David
Soyer