Listings
: SONG RECITAL
John Carol Case (baritone) Frederick Stone (piano)Contributors
: THE ODYSSEY
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets12: 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
: ORCHESTRALCONCERT
Eileen Broster Carlina CarrSusan Tunnell pianos
Welbeck String Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor, Maurice Miles
Part 1
Contributors
: ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE
by Alec NoveReader 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
: CONCERT
Part 2: The Infernal Machine
by JEAN COCTEAUwith 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
: ARRIAGA
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
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