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Third Programme, Drama, 1949

The BBC Third Programme: Plays, 1949

01/01/1949 James Joyce The Second Best Bed (Arranged for broadcasting by John Keir Cross)

03/01/1949 J. Bronowski The Journey to Japan

04/01/1949 Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

05/01/1949 Michael Innes The Hawk and the Handsaw

08/01/1949 Anton Chekhov The Seagull

10/01/1949 R. C. Scriven The Island of White Birds

12/01/1949 Terence Tiller The Death of a Friend rpt 13/01/1949

12/01/1949 Laurence Housman Possesssion rpt 13/01/1949

15/01/1949 Louis MacNeice Trimalchio’s Feast

18/01/1949 Ben Jonson Batholomew Fair rpt 19/01/1949 and 11/02/1949

23/01/1949 August Strindberg The Creditors rpt 27/01/1949 and 13/02/1949

29/01/1949 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Tomorrow’s Doomsday

31/01/1949 Edith Sitwell Façade

01/02/1949 August Strindberg A Dream Play

02/02/1949 Frank Muir and Denis Norden Third Division rpt 09/02/1949 and 16/02/1949 and 23/02/1949 and 02/03/1949

04/02/1949 August Strindberg Pariah rpt 25/02/1949 and 28/04/1949

05/02/1949 Laurence Housman Possession

07/02/1949 August Strindberg Swanwhite rpt 09/02/1949

13/02/1949 J. Bronowski The Inward Eye 2. The Journey to Japan

14/02/1949 Louis MacNeice He Had a Date rpt 16/02/1949 and 12/03/1949

15/02/1949 William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet rpt 18/02/1949 and 23/02/1949

20/02/1949 Helena Wood The Madness of the Heart rpt 23/03/1949

27/02/1949 Patric Dickinson The Angels of the Creators rpt 20/03/1949

28/02/1949 Charles Shadwell The Fair Quaker of Deal rpt 05/03/1949 and 22/03/1949

01/03/1949 Voltaire Candide rpt 04/03/1949 and 25/03/1949

05/03/1949 William Shakespeare Macbeth rpt 08/03/1949 and 12/07/1949

10/03/1949 Elizabeth Bowen A Year I Remember - 1918 rpt 11/03/1949 and 02/04/1949

15/03/1949 Jack Lindsay Coan Vestments (from the Greek of Herondas, Theocritus, and Philetas) rpt 19/03/1949 and 03/04/1949

21/03/1949 Laurence Kitchin The Trial of Lord Byron

27/03/1949 William Shakespeare Othello rpt 01/04/1949 and 011/09/1949

28/03/1949 Louis MacNeice The Queen of Air and Darkness rpt 30/03/1949 and 21/04/1949

05/04/1949 Albert Camus Caligula rpt 07/04/1949 and 25/04/1949

10/04/1949 Robert Browning The Ring and the Book rpt 12/04/1949

12/04/1949 Colette L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

15/04/1949 Terence Tiller The Harrowing of Hell rpt 16/04/1949

17/04/1949 Terence Tiller The Resurrection rpt 18/04/1949

19/04/1949 Rollo H. Myers and E. J. King Bull The Fisher King (' Le Roi Pecheur ' by Julien Gracq) rpt 20/04/1949 and 13/05/1949

26/04/1949 William Shakespeare King Lear rpt 29/04/1949

01/05/1949 The Bacchae of Euripides Translated by D. W. Lucas rpt 03/05/1949 and 23/05/1949

04/05/1949 Terence Tiller Galilee and Emmaus rpt 05/05/1949

07/05/1949 Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation rpt 28/05/1949

08/05/1949 Jonquil Antony Frolic Wind rpt 12/05/1949 and 31/05/1949

09/05/1949 Henry Reed The Unblest rpt 10/05/1949 and 01/06/1949

15/05/1949 James Forsyth Trog rpt 20/05/1949 and 06/06/1949 and 08/10/1949

18/05/1949 Patric Dickinson A New Judgment

25/05/1949 Rt. Rev. Monsignor Ronald A. Knox The Song of Songs rpt 17/06/1949

26/05/1949 Terence Tiller The Ascension rpt 27/05/1949

27/05/1949 Laurence Housman His Favourite Flower

29/05/1949 Thomas Holcroft The Road to Ruin rpt 04/06/1949 and 22/06/1949

03/06/1949 Lance Sieveking An Echo from the Moon

05/06/1949 W. R. Rodgers W B Yeats – A Dublin Portrait rpt 21/06/1949

08/06/1949 W. B. Yeats The Countess Cathleen rpt 011/06/1949

13/06/1949 Denis Johnston and Douglas Cleverdon Amanda McKittrick Ros

15/06/1949 Federico Garcia Lorca Blood Wedding rpt 16/06/1949 and 07/07/1949

19/06/1949 W. B. Yeats The Words Upon the Window-Pane rpt 24/06/1949 and 10/07/1949

25/06/1949 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1 rpt 02/07/1949

26/06/1949 Michael Innes The Mysterious Affair at Elsinore rpt 31/08/1949

27/06/1949 Rayner Heppenstall The Fool’s Saga rpt 01/07/1949 and 19/07/1949

28/06/1949 William Shakespeare Hamlet

30/06/1949 James Joyce (Arranged for broadcasting by John Keir Cross) The Second-Best Bed

03/07/1949 Laurence Housman The Man of Business rpt 06/07/1949

13/07/1949 Marianne Helweg and Elias Bredsdorff A Year I Remember – 1847 rpt 05/08/1949

14/07/1949 V. S. Pritchett Imaginery Conversations – « Maisie »

17/07/1949 Thomas Love Peacock The Dilettanti rpt 13/08/1949

18/07/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Manciple’s Tale rpt 21/07/1949

24/07/1949 Jean Anouilh Antigone (from the translation by Lewis Galantière) rpt 29/07/1949 and 14/08/1949

25/07/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Man of Law's Tale rpt 30/07/1949

27/07/1949 Sean O'Faolain A Year I Remember – 1928-1929 rpt 10/10/1949

01/08/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Shipman's Tale rpt 04/08/1949

03/08/1949 Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon rpt 23/08/1949

07/08/1949 C. S. Lewis The Pilgrim’s Regress rpt 24/09/1949

08/08/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Monk's Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale

10/08/1949 Anthony Hope The Dolly Dialogues Part 1 rpt 29/08/1949

11/08/1949 Anthony Hope The Dolly Dialogues Part 2 rpt 13/08/1949 and 01/09/1949

15/08/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Pardoner's Preamble and Tale rpt 19/08/1949

17/08/1949 Anthony Hope The Dolly Dialogues Part 3 rpt 18/08/1949 and 03/09/1949

21/08/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Preamble to the Wife of Bath's Tale rpt 25/08/1949

22/08/1949 John Morris and Sewell Stokes The Double Cherry rpt 26/08/1949 and 14/09/1949

24/08/1949 John Fletcher The Faithful Shepherdess rpt 18/09/1949

28/08/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Wife of Bath's Tale and the Friar's Tale rpt 30/08/1949

02/09/1949 John Pudney A Year I Remember – 1938 rpt 03/09/1949 and 22/09/1949

04/09/1949 Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris (Translated by Philip Vellacott) rpt 09/09/1949

05/09/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Clerk of Oxford's Preamble and Tale rpt 07/09/1949

12/09/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Merchant's Preamble and Tale rpt 17/09/1949

18/09/1949 Bernard Shaw In Good King Charles’s Golden Days rpt 23/09/1949 and 11/10/1949

19/09/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Squire's Tale

19/09/1949 Edouard Blau , Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann Werther

20/09/1949 Voltaire Candide (Translated into a radio version and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

21/09/1949 Thomas Mann Olympian Morning rpt 22/09/1949 and 15/10/1949

25/09/1949 Titus Maccius Plautus Pseudolus rpt 28/09/1949 and 16/10/1949

26/09/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Franklin's Tale rpt 27/09/1949

02/10/1949 Terence Tiller The Death of Adam rpt 07/10/1949 and 24/10/1949

03/10/1949 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – The Canon's Yeoman's Tale rpt 04/10/1949

05/10/1949 Goethe Egmont (Translated by David Porter) rpt 12/10/1949

18/10/1949 Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus rpt 22/10/1949 and 08/11/1949

20/10/1949 Francis Watson A Year I Remember - 1939

23/10/1949 Rayner Heppenstall Portrait of a City – Frankfurt am Main rpt 26/10/1949 and 14/11/1949

25/10/1949 Jean Dutourd The Tree ('L'Arbre') (English version by Lothian Small and E. J. King Bull) rpt 27/10/1949 and 30/11/1949

30/10/1949 Laurence Kitchin Victorian Nocturne rpt 04/11/1949 and 26/11/1949

01/11/1949 Goethe Faust (Translated by Louis MacNeice) rpt 02/11/1949 and 10/11/1949 and 11/11/1949 and 13/11/1949 and 16/11/1949 and 17/11/1949 and 18/11/1949 and 21/11/1949 and 23/11/1949

07/11/1949 Francis Watson A Year I Remember - 1939

15/11/1949 Olivia Manning A Year I Remember – Greek Easter 1940 rpt 19/11/1949 and 09/12/1949

20/11/1949 David Garnett Thomas Love Peacock rpt 13/12/1949

27/11/1949 Thomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey (Adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 02/12/1949 and 23/12/1949

04/12/1949 S. N. Behrman (Adapted from the French of Jean Giraudoux) Amphitryon 38 rpt 07/12/1949 and 27/12/1949

06/12/1949 James Monahan The Inward Eye – 4 “One Man Going to War” rpt 30/12/1949

11/12/1949 Henrik Ibsen Brand rpt 16/12/1949

12/12/1949 W. P. Rilla The End of a Childhood rpt 14/12/1949

21/12/1949 Henrik Ibsen Peer Gynt rpt 24/12/1949

25/12/1949 James Thurber The White Deer (Adapted for broadcasting by Len Tennyson) rpt 26/12/1949

29/12/1949 William Shakespeare The Tempest rpt 31/12/1949

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Compiled by Alistair Wyper



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