Third Programme, Drama, 1952
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Between 01/01/1952 and 05/01//1952 there are no programmes listed.
06/01/1952 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Acts 1 and 2
07/01/1952 Michael Swan Who Would Not Weep ? rpt 10/01/1952 and 02/02/1952
08/01/1952 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Act 3
09/01/1952 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Act 4
11/01/1952 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (All 4 Acts)
13/01/1952 Eugene O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! rpt 15/01/1952 and 16/02/1952
13/01/1952 Louis MacNeice In Search of Anoyia
14/01/1952 T. H. White The Goshawk rpt 19/01/1952 and 05/02/1952
16/01/1952 Anne Ridler The Golden Bird
17/01/1952 Coventry Patmore The Angel in the House (A narrative poem Condensed and introduced by Derek Patmore with readers, Anne Cullen and Robert Speaight) rpt 19/01/1952
18/01/1952 Evelyn Waugh Helena (Evelyn Waugh 's historical novel adapted for broadcasting by the author and Christopher Sykes)
20/01/1952 Sacha Guitry Deburau (Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the English version of Harley Granville-Barker) rpt 22/01/1952
21/01/1952 Rayner Heppenstall Dear Sensibility (A journey through France In the steps of Laurence Sterne) rpt 24/01/1952 and 11/02/1952
23/01/1952 Norman Barrow The Occupying Power (Extracts from a Profane Psalter) rpt 26/01/1952 and 19/02/1952 and 25/09/1952
26/01/1952 Louis MacNeice The Golden Ass or ' Metamorphoses ' of Apuleius
27/01/1952 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida rpt 29/01/1952 and 23/03/1952
01/02/1952 C. F. Ramuz The Soldier’s Tale (Translated by D. F. Aitken) (Music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Paul Sacher)
01/02/1952 Jean Anouilh The Untamed (La Sauvage) (Translated from the French by Kitty Black)
03/02/1952 George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell rpt 08/02/1952 and 02/06/1952
04/02/1952 H. A. L. Craig Blame Not the Bard rpt 06/02/1952 and 02/07/1952
07/02/1952 Hugh Gordon Porteus Dog River rpt 09/02/1952
09/02/1952 Cyril Toumeur The Revenger's Tragedy (Adapted for radio and produced by Frank Hauser with music composed and directed by John Hotchkis)
12/02/1952 Henry de Montherlant Malatesta (Translated from the French and adapted for radio by Henry Reed) (Production by E. A. Harding) rpt 25/02/1952 and 08/03/1952 and 18/03/1952
13/02/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Lectures - Doctorship, Patientship and the Health Ploy rpt 29/03/1952 and 02/04/1952 and 19/06/1952
17/02/1952 Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector rpt 19/02/1952 and 14/03/1952
17/02/1952 Louis MacNeice The Centre of the World
18/02/1952 Patric Dickinson The Muse of Fire rpt 22/02/1952 and 13/03/1952
24/02/1952 George Moore (An Irish portrait of the novelist drawn from the recorded remainders and reminders of Lady Hanson) (Edited by W. R. Rodgers) rpt 29/02/1952 and 20/03/1952 (No writer’s name is listed in Genome)
25/02/1952 John Milton Samson Agonistes rpt 01/03/1952
02/03/1952 William Shakespeare All’s Well That Ends Well rpt 04/03/1952 and 26/03/1952
03/03/1952 Pamela Hansford Johnson Swann in Love (A Proust reconstruction) rpt 07/03/1952 and 25/03/1952
09/03/1952 George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara rpt 11/03/1952
16/03/1952 Henry Reed The Streets of Pompeii rpt 19/03/1952 and 12/04/1952
17/03/1952 Ivan Turgenev The Sweetest Wine Makes the Sharpest Vinegar rpt 22/03/1952 and 18/04/1952
28/03/1952 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
30/03/1952 Lawrence Hanson The Bearskin or The Birth of George Eliot rpt 04/04/1952 and 24/04/1952
31/03/1952 Catherine Duncan The Sailor’s Wife (A radio verse-comedy) rpt 05/04/1952 and 31/05/1952
01/04/1952 George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra rpt 03/04/1952
08/04/1952 Luigi Pirandello Naked rpt 03/05/1952
13/04/1952 John Ford Perkin Warbeck rpt 15/04/1952 and 10/05/1952
14/04/1952 Jessie Kesson The Childhood rpt 17/04/1952 and 08/05/1952
19/04/1952 Cyril Tourneur The Revenger’s Tragedy
20/04/1952 George Bernard Shaw Getting Married rpt 22/04/1952
21/04/1952 W. S. Merwin The Pageant of Cain (A masque for broadcasting by with music composed and directed by John Hotchkis) rpt 22/04/1952 rpt 16/05/1952
27/04/1952 Sophocles Excerpts from Oedipus Rex in Greek rpt 30/04/1952 and 24/01/1952
28/04/1952 Harold Nicolson Titty (A story from ' Some People' adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Brian Haines and David Tree) rpt 20/05/1952 and 03/08/1952
01/05/1952 Alfred de Musset La Nuit de Mai (A new verse translation by Norman Cameron Read in English by Lydia Sherwood and Robert Eddison, and specially recorded in the original French by Tania Balachova and Julien Bertheau Programme arranged and presented by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 02/05/1952
04/05/1952 Anton Chekhov Ivanov rpt 06/05/1952 and 30/05/1952
05/05/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Lectures - Some notes on (1) Businessmanship and (2) Carmanship rpt 31/05/1952
07/05/1952 Terence Tiller The Conscience of the King rpt 09/05/1952 and 29/05/1952
08/05/1952 Alfred de Musset La Nuit de Décembre (A new verse translation by Norman Cameron Read in English by Robert Eddison. and specially recorded in the original French by Julien Bertheau Programme arranged and presented by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 10/05/1952
11/05/1952 Dorothy Johnson Master of the House (An episode from her book ' Giuliano the Innocent ') rpt 13/05/1952 and 14/06/1952
12/05/1952 Ivan Roots The Battle of Dunbar (Written in collaboration with Christopher Sykes) rpt 15/05/1952 and 05/06/1952
15/05/1952 Alfred de Musset La Nuit d’ Août (A new verse translation by Norman Cameron)
01/05/1952 W. S. Merwin with music composed and directed by John Hotchkis
17/05/1952 Alfred de Musset On ne Badine pas avec L’Amour (Performed in French with production and adaptation for radio by J. Weltman)
18/05/1952 George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House rpt 22/05/1952
19/05/1952 Alfred de Musset La Nuit D’ Octobre (A new verse translation by Norman Cameron read in English by Lydia Sherwood and Robert Eddison and specially recorded in the original French by Tania Balachova and Julien Bertheau) (Programme arranged and presented by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 23/05/1952
19/05/1952 H. A. L. Craig Supplication to the Divell (Containing the encounters of Thomas Nashe with Martin Marprelate and with Gabriel Harvey , together with an account of Robert Greene 's last supper as told by Pierce Peniless) rpt 21/05/1952 and 13/06/1952
24/05/1952 Sophocles Oedipus Rex (An English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)
25/05/1952 Christopher Marlowe The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage rpt 27/05/1952 and 21/06/1952 and 21/06/1952
01/06/1952 Jacinto Benavente Saturday Night (Translated from the Spanish by John Garrett Underhill) rpt 03/06/1952 and 27/06/1952
02/06/1952 Andre Gide The Return of the Prodigal (Translated by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 06/06/1952 and 28/06/1952
03/06/1952 Hugh Gordon Porteus Dog River (Selections from a dramatic verse-fantasy for broadcasting) rpt 04/06/1952
07/06/1952 Euripides Iphigeneia in Aulis (English translation and radio production by Raymond Raikes with music composed by Anthony Bernard)
08/06/1952 Eugene O'Neill The Straw rpt 10/06/1952 and 12/07/1952
11/06/1952 Henry Reed Pytheas rpt 13/06/1952 and 01/01/1952
15/06/1952 Jean Cocteau The Exhibitionists (Les Monstres Sacrés) (Translated and adapted for radio by Peter Watts) rpt 18/06/1952 rpt 06/08/1952
16/06/1952 Terence Tiller Lord Randall rpt 20/06/1952 and 10/07/1952
22/06/1952 Bjornstjerne Bjornson Love and Geography (Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin BjBrkman and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) rpt 24/06/1952 and 13/08/1952
22/06/1952 Douglas Cleverdon and Laurence Kitchin Life Among the London Poor – 1 The Urban Nomads
23/06/1952 Michael Innes Fools of Time rpt 25/06/1952 and 19/07/1952
24/06/1952 Douglas Cleverdon and Laurence Kitchin Life Among the London Poor –2 Street-Sellers, Street-Finders and Street-Performers
29/06/1952 Rev. George Berkeley Imaginary Conversations – The Voice of God (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 03/07/1952 and 23/07/1952
29/06/1952 Luigi Pirandello Each in His Own Way (Translated by Arthur Livingston and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) rpt 05/07/1952 and 20/08/1952
06/07/1952 Maxim Gorky The Zykovs rpt 08/07/1952
13/07/1952 Sir Thomas Malory The Death of Arthur (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon from the last part of Morte Darthur edited by Eugene Vinaver from the text of the Winchester MS with music composed and conducted by P. Racine Fricker)
16/07/1952 Maurice Maeterlinck Aglavaine and Sélysette (Adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham from the translation by Alfred Sutro) rpt 18/07/1952
20/07/1952 St. John Hankin The Return of the Prodigal (Arranged for broadcasting by Howieson Culff and produced by Archie Campbell) rpt 22/07/1952
24/07/1952 W. M. Merchant Tales of the Seven Sages of Rome (A story-cycle translated from the medieval Welsh) rpt 12/08/1952
27/07/1952 Harley Granville-Barker The Vosey Inheritance rpt 28/07/1952
29/07/1952 Sean O'Faolain Imaginary Conversations – The Train to Banbury (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 01/08/1952 and 17/08/1952
04/08/1952 Archibald MacLeish Conquistador (A dramatic adaptation of the poem by Archibald MacLeish and arranged and produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 07/08/1952 and 28/08/1952
05/08/1952 Jacinto Benavente The Governor’s Wife (Adapted by Helena Wood from the translation by John Garrett Underhill) rpt 08/08/1952 and 12/09/1952
10/08/1952 Thierry Maulnier The Blasphemer (Le Profanateur) (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Christopher Sykes and produced by Val Gielgud) rpt 15/08/1952 and 19/09/1952
18/08/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Lectures - The Art of Not Rock-Climbing rpt 10/09/1952
21/08/1952 Christopher Sykes The Valldemosa Affair (A study of the events recorded In George Sand 's travel book ' A Winter in Majorca') rpt 22/08/1952 and 10/09/1952
22/08/1952 Gabriel Marcel Oblation ((' Le Signe de la Croix ') (English version by Rosalind Heywood with an adaptation and production by E. J. King Bull)
24/08/1952 Branislav Nushich Wife of a Minister (Translated from the Serbian and freely adapted by Alec Brown and produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 30/08/1952 and 23/09/1952
25/08/1952 Edward Hyams Imaginary Conversations – The False Etruscan rpt 27/08/1952 and 17/09/1952
31/08/1952 Marivaux La Seconde Surprise de L’Amour (Adaptation and production for radio by J. Weltman) rpt 04/09/1952 and 15/11/1952
03/09/1952 Dorothy Baker Poet and Child
07/09/1952 Federico Garcia Lorca The House of Bernarda Alba rpt 11/09/1952 and 01/11/1952
14/09/1952 (author unknown) Arden of Faversham (first printed 1592) (Adapted for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes) rpt 16/09/1952
15/09/1952 Terence Tiller The Tower of Hunger (A verse play for radio with music composed by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 20/09/1952
18/09/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Lectures – Troutmanship
21/09/1952 Euripides The Women of Troy (An English version by Philip Vellacott) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes with music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) rpt 26/09/1952 and 25/10/1952
22/09/1952 Frederic Manning Imaginary Conversations - The Jesters of the Lord rpt 27/09/1952 and 11/10/1952
29/09/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (Programme 1— 'Error's Den; Hypocrisy and Fair Falsehood' (Being Cantos 1 and 2 of Book 1) (Produced by Louis MacNeice) rpt 02/10/1952
30/09/1952 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Part 1- ' In the Beginning ' rpt 14/11/1952
03/10/1952 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Part 2-' The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas’ rpt 21/11/1952
05/10/1952 Eric Ewens The Case of Governor Eyre rpt 11/10/1952 and 13/11/1952
06/10/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 2-' Forsaken Truth; the Cave of Despair' (Being Cantos 3 and 9 of Book 1) (Produced by Louis MacNeice) (Second of twelve programmes) rpt 09/10/1952
07/10/1952 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Part 3—' The Thing Happens' rpt 27/11/1952
08/10/1952 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Part 4: ' Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman' rpt 06/12/1952
10/10/1952 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Part 5: ' As Far as Thought Can Reach ' rpt 13/12/1952
12/10/1952 Honor Tracy Imaginary Conversations – De L’Angleterre ('Miss Austen Provides a Foot-note’) rpt 16/10/1952 rpt 21/11/1952
13/10/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 3 — ' The Idle Lake; the Realm of Mammon' (Being Cantos 6 and 7 of Book 2) rpt 15/10/1952
14/10/1952 Gabriele d'Annunzio The Dead City (Translation by Arthur Symons and adaptation by Helena Wood) rpt 18/10/1952
17/10/1952 William Shakespeare Richard II
20/10/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 4: ' The Bower of Bliss’ (Being Canto 8, stanzas 1-9 and Canto 12 of Book 2) rpt 23/10/1952
21/10/1952 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1
24/10/1952 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 2
26/10/1952 Henry Reed The Great Desire I Had rpt 30/10/1952 and 26/11/1952
27/10/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 5 ' Timias and Belphoebe; The Gardens of Adonis' (Being Cantos 5 and 6 of Book 3) rpt 29/10/1952
28/10/1952 William Shakespeare Henry V
02/11/1952 William Shakespeare The Wars of the Roses - King Henry VI Part 2 (A sequence of Shakespeare's histories edited by Professor J. Dover Wilson) rpt 16/12/1952
03/11/1952 A. N. L. Munby Sir Thomas Phillipps Portrait of a Book-Collector rpt 23/11/1952
03/11/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 6 - 'The Two Florimels; Lust and Jealousy' rpt 08/11/1952
04/11/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Lectures - Troutmanship
04/11/1952 William Shakespeare The Wars of the Roses – King Henry VI Part 3 (A sequence of Shakespeare's histories edited by Professor J. Dover Wilson) rpt 19/12/1952
06/11/1952 William Shakespeare The Wars of the Roses – Richard III (A sequence of Shakespeare's histories edited by Professor J. Dover Wilson) rpt 20/12/1952
09/11/1952 Louis MacNeice One Eye Wild rpt 11/11/1952 and 17/12/1952
10/11/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 7-' The House of Busirane’ (Being Cantos 11 and 12 of Book 3) rpt 12/11/1952
16/11/1952 Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune rpt 22/11/1952
17/11/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 8 — 'The Temple of Venus; the Marriage of Thames and Medway ' (Being Cantos 10 and 11 of Book 4) rpt 20/11/1952
19/11/1952 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Radio script and production by Donald McWhinnie)
22/11/1952 Glyn Jones and T. J. Morgan The Story of Llywarch the Old (A translation of part of the Llywarch Hen poems with a reconstructed narrative) (Production by Elwyn Evans)
23/11/1952 Alfred de Vigny Le Cor (A new verse translation by John Heath-Stubbs) (Read in English by Bernard Miles and in French by Marcel Herrand) (Programme arranged by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 26/11/1952
24/11/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 9—'The Temple of Isis; the Savage Man; the Hermitage ' (Being Canto 7 of Book 5 and selections from Cantos 4, 5, and 6 of Book 6) rpt 25/11/1952
28/11/1952 Machiavelli Mandragola (A comedy freely adapted from Niccolo Machiavelli by Ashley Dukes) (Radio version by Barbara Burnham) rpt 29/11/1952
30/11/1952 Corneille Le Cid (In a seventeenth-century English translation by J. Rutter established and completed by Merlin Thomas) rpt 05/12/1952
01/12/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 10 - 'Mirabella and Serena; Pastorella' (Being Cantos 8 and 9 of Book 6) rpt 06/12/1952
02/12/1952 Angus Wilson Skeletons Assegais (Family reminiscences) rpt 04/12/1952 and 31/12/1952
02/12/1952 Alfred de Vigny La Mort du Loup (A new verse translation by Richard Church) (Read in English by Bernard Miles and in French by Marcel Herrand) (Programme arranged by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 04/12/1952
07/12/1952 Lillian Hellman Montserrat (From the French of Emmanuel Robles) (Adapted for radio by Peter Watts) rpt 09/12/1952
08/12/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 11 - ‘Colin Clout; the Rescue of Pastorella' (Being Cantos 10 and 11 of Book 6) rpt 10/12/1952
15/12/1952 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Programme 12- ‘The Mutabilitie Cantos’ rpt 18/12/1952
21/12/1952 Molière Les Fourberies de Scapin (In an English translation by George Graveley) (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 27/12/1952
22/12/1952 Michael Ayrton Tittivulus or ' The Verbiage Collector’ rpt 25/12/1952
23/12/1952 Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark (A musical version for broadcasting composed by Max Saunders and with an orchestra conducted by the composer: pianist, Clifton Helliwell) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 2/12/1952
24/12/1952 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Correspondence College
26/12/1952 W. H. Auden For the Time Being (A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden with music composed by Matyas Sedber) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) (The Three Wise Men and Orchestra and the Dorian Singers conducted by Matyas Seiber)
28/12/1952 Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus (Translated by E. F. Watling) rpt 30/12/1952
29/12/1952 Pamela Hansford Johnson Imaginary Conversation - The Duchess at Sunset (Music for piano composed and played by Arthur Oldham)
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Compiled by Alistair Wyper - many thanks.
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