Third Programme:
Drama, 1955

01/01/1955 Frank Whitehead Nature’s Sternest Painter
(Produced by Terence Tiller)

03/01/1955 Thomas Deloney The Widow’s Wooing
(An episode from ' The Pleasant and Delectable Historie of John Winchcombe , otherwise called Jacke of Newberie,') (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 05/01/1955

05/01/1955 Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter
(A radio melodrama for some voices and a few instruments composed by Max Saunders to the words of Lewis Carroll) (Conducted by the composer) (Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith) rpt 06/01/1955

07/01/1955 David Bulwer Lutyens Judas Iscariot
rpt 10/02/1955

08/01/1955 Michel Arnaud Six-Twelve
(Le Premier Train pour l'lnconnu) (English version and production by E, J. King Bull)

09/01/1955 Dryden Amphitryon
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Watts) (Music arranged and conducted by Dennis Arundell from themes of Purcell)

11/01/1955 Ivy Compton-Burnett Manservant and Maidservant
(Adapted for broadcasting by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) (Production by Christopher Sykes)

13/01/1955 Thomas Lodge Rosalynde
('Euphues' Golden Legacie') (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom) (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) (Music arranged and conducted by Patrick Savill) (Rosalynde was first published in 1590. It is the chief source of Shakespeare's As You Like It)

14/01/1955 John Whiting Marching Song
(Adapted for radio by Peter Watts) (Produced by Peter Watts)

15/01/1955 Molière Amphytron
(Translated by John Ozell) (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Martyn C. Webster) (Incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis)

16/01/1955 Schiller The Death of Wallenstein
(Translated by S. T. Coleridge) (Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) rpt 21/01/1955

18/01/1955 Albert Camus L’Etranger
(Translated and adapted by Sasha Moorsom) (Music composed by Roberto Gerhard) (Production by D. G. Bridson)

20/01/1955 Boccaccio's Decameron – The Plague in Florence
(Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 22/01/1955

20/01/1955 Boccaccio The Loyal Wife of Genoa
(Philomena's Tale on the Second Day) (First of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron) (Arranged by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner heppenstall with Gareth Jones and Lewis Wilson) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 22/01/1955

23/01/1955 Ugo Betti The Burnt Flower-Bed
(Translated from the Italian and adapted for radio by Henry Reed) (Music for horn composed by William Wordsworth: played by Ian Beers) (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 28/01/1955 and 26/02/1955

24/01/1955 Dorothy Baker In the Bosom of the Family
(Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 02/07/1955

25/01/1955 Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (The songs set by Daniel Jones) (Children's songs and singing game recorded by children of Laugharne School)

29/01/1955 W. S. Merwin The Mystery of Robert the Devil
(Translated by W. S. Merwin from the medieval French with music composed by James Bernard) (The singers and orchestra conducted by Christopher Whelan) (Production by Frederick Bradnum)

30/01/1955 David Jones In Parenthesis
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 04/02/1955 and 29/09/1955

31/01/1955 Boccaccio's Decameron – Juliet of Narbonne
(Neiphila's Tale on the Third Day) (Second of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 02/02/1955

01/02/1955 Euripides The Ion
(Translated, with a commentary, by H.D.) (Music by Anthony Bernard) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)

03/02/1955 T. S. Eliot The Confidential Clerk
(Pianist, Clifton Helliwell) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie)

05/02/1955 Virginio Puecher The Battle of the Masks
(Adapted by Henry Reed and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

06/02/1955 Jules Supervielle The Man Who Stole Children
(Adaptation by Dorothy Baker based on the translation by Alan Pryce-Jones) (Production by Louis MacNeice) rpt 11/02/1955 and 22/09/1955

06/02/1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 1
(Cantos 1-5) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 12/02/1955

07/02/1955 W. B. Yeats On Baile’s Strand
(Music composed and conducted by John Buckland) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 08/02/1955 and 12/03/1955

07/02/1955 William Shakespeare A Lover’s Complaint
(Produced by George Rylands)

09/02/1955 Clifford Dyment Self-Portrait
(Produced by Terence Tiller)

13/02/1955 Calderon Life’s a Dream
(' La vida es sueiio ') (Translated by Roy Campbell from the Spanish) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark) (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 18/02/1955 and 16/04/1955

13/02/1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 2
(Cantos 6 - 11) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 17/02/1955

14/02/1955 Henry Fielding The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
(Edited by Eric Ewens) (Narrator, David Peel with Patience Collier and Richard George) (Produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 18/10/1955

16/02/1955 Elizabeth Poston The Holy Child
(A ballad cantata with a text based on the Childhood of Christ as described in the New Testament and in traditional English ballads drawn from the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels: compiled and written by Terence Tiller)

19/02/1955 Boccaccio Tancred, Prince of Salerno
(Fiammetta's Tale on the Fourth Day) (Third of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620, arranged by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall)

20/02/1955 Jean Anouilh The Ermine
(Translated by Miriam John) rpt 25/02/1955 and 02/04/1955

20/02/1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 3
(Cantos 12 - 17) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 23/02/1955

27/02/1955 Gabriel Marcel Increase and Multiply
(English version by Rosalind Heywood) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) (Incidental music by Christopher Whelen played by the Boyd Neel Orchestra, led by Joshua Glazier and conducted by the composer) rpt 04/03/1955 and 30/04/1955

27/02/1955 1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 4
(Cantos 18 - 22) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 03/03/1955

28/02/1955 Boccaccio Isabella’s Three Brethren
(Philomena's Tale on the Fourth Day) (Fourth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620, arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 04/03/1955

01/03/1955 Schiller The Death of Wallenstein
(Translated By: S. T. Coleridge and adapted by Helena Wood) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie and Michael Bakewell)

05/03/1955 James Kirkup The Descent Into the Cave

06/03/1955 Thomas Middleton Women Beware Women
(Adapted for radio and produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 11/03/1955 and 27/05/1955

06/03/1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 5
(Cantos 23 - 27) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith)

08/03/1955 Harold Acton The Princess Isisdore
(Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 09/03/1955 and 09/07/1955

13/03/1955 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Everyman
(A version based on the Salzburg ' Jedermann' by Hugo von Hofmannsthal) (Translated and arranged for broadcasting by Dennis Arundell with incidental music composed by Sibelius) (Production by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 15/03/1955

13/03/1955 Dante Alighieri The ‘Purgatorio’ PART 6
(Cantos 28 - 33) (The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 17/03/1955

14/03/1955 Boccaccio The Dream of Andreana
(Pamphilus's Tale on the Fourth Day) Fifth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron rpt 19/03/1955

16/03/1955 Anon Aucassin and Nicolette
(Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Rene Hague with music arranged from contemporary sources by Denis Stevens Rene Hague) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

21/03/1955 Tewfik el Hakim Sheherazade
(Translated, adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 25/03/1955 and 25/08/1955

22/03/1955 Alphonse Daudet L’ Arlesienne
(Translated by Edward Sackville-West) (Music by Georges Bizet) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 17/05/1955

27/03/1955 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
(Adapted and produced by Raymon Raikes in accordance with an Interpretation of the play by Nevill Coghill) (Music by John Hotchkis played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra, leader, Emanuel Hurwitz conducted by the composer) rpt 01/04/1955 and 23/04/1955

28/03/1955 Boccaccio The Vision in the Woods
(Pampinea's Tale on the Fifth Day) (Sixth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 31/03/1955

30/03/1955 Henry Reed Vincenzo
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 13/05/1955

03/04/1955 Robert Bolt The Last of the Wine
(Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 07/04/1955

05/04/1955 Henry Reed Return to Naples
(Production by Douglas Cleverdon)

10/04/1955 Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
(Adapted for radio by Max Faber from his English version) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 12/04/1955 and 21/06/1955

11/04/1955 Henry Reed A By-Election in the Nineties
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

13/04/1955 Boccaccio Frederigo’s Falcon
(Fiammetta's Tale on the Fifth Day) (Seventh of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)

15/04/1955 Henry Reed The Unblest
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

17/04/1955 Frederick Bradnum The Pity of Love
(Music composed by Edward Williams and played on the guitar by Fitzroy Coleman) (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 19/04/1955 and 26/09/1955

18/04/1955 The Story of the Lame Young Man and the Barber of Baghdad
(Translated by N. J. Dawood from ' The Thousand and One Nights') (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 21/04/1955

22/04/1955 Henry Reed The Streets of Pompeii
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Music composed by Anthony Smith-Masters conducted by Patrick Savill with Sidney Fell (clarinet)) rpt 24/04/1955

25/04/1955 Francis Webb Birthday
(Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 26/04/1955 and 15/06/1955

27/04/1955 Boccaccio The Crane’s Leg
(Neiphila's Tale on the Sixth Day) (Eighth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620 Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall with Ann Kindred) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 28/04/1955

28/04/1955 Patric Dickinson The Real Voice
(Production by Joe Burroughs)

01/05/1955 Franz Werfel Schweiger
(English version for broadcasting by George Merritt) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 28/06/1955 and 29/06/1955

02/05/1955 George Moore Albert Nobbs
(A dramatic script by E. J. King Bull from ' A Story-Teller's Holiday') (Production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 06/05/1955 and 02/11/1955

04/05/ 1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 1 (Cantos 1-6) rpt 07/05/1955

09/05/1955 Boccaccio The Phoenix Feather
(Dioneus's Tale on the Sixth Day) (Ninth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620 Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 12/05/1955

11/05/1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 2 (Cantos 7-11) 1/05/1955 1955 rpt 14/05/1955

12/05/1955 Henry James The Pension Beaurepas
(Adapted and produced by Mary Hope Allen)

18/05/1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 3 (Cantos 12-17) rpt 21/05/1955

20/05/1955 Euripides Helen
(Translated by Philip Vellacott with music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)

22/05/1955 Gerard McLarnon Abandon All Remorse
or Some Experiences of an Irish Strolling Player (Production by Francis Dillon) rpt 25/05/1955 and 08/10/1955

23/05/1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 4 (Cantos 18-22) rpt 28/05/1955

24/05/1955 Boccaccio The Enchanted Pear Tree
(Pamphilus's Tale on the Seventh Day) (Tenth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 25/05/1955

24/05/1955 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age Part 1
'The Childermass' (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 08/07/1955 and 11/10/1955

26/05/1955 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age Part 2
‘Monstre Gai' (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 15/07/1955 and 19/10/1955

28/05/1955 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age Part 3
'Malign Fiesta' (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 20/07/1955 and 25/10/1955

29/05/1955 Dorothy Baker Poet and Child
(Produced by Terence Tiller) (The Song of the Phoenix recorded by Denise Bryer) rpt 03/06/1955

30/05/1955 Sir Thomas Malory, Knight - The Quest for the Holy Grail
(Adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon from the text of the Winchester ms edited by Eugene Vinaver with music composed and conducted by P. Racine Fricker) (A string section of the Goldsbrough Orchestra, Leader: Emanuel Hurwitz)

31/05/1955 Lope de Vega Fuenteovejuna
(A new translation by Roy Campbell) (Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh with music composed by Arthur Oldham) (The songs sung by Edward Byles and John Carolan with Desmond Dupré (guitar)) Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 04/06/1955 and 05/08/1955

01/06/1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 5 (Cantos 23-27) rpt 02/06/1955

05/06/1955 Ugo Betti Holiday Land – An Idyll
(' II Paese delle Vacanze ') (Translated from the Italian and adapted for radio by Henry Reed) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 11/06/1955 and 27/07/1955

06/06/1955 Anthony Curtis The Inconstant Man
(Production by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 10/06/1955

08/06/1955 Dante Alighieri Paradiso
(The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts produced by Peter Duval Smith) PART 6 (Cantos 28-33) rpt 11/06/1955

09/06/1955 Boccaccio The Cloak and the Mortar
(Pamphilus's Tale on the Eighth Day) (Eleventh of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620 Arranged by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 10/06/1955

14/06/1955 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
(Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 18/06/1955 and 24/09/1955

16/06/1955 Vincent Brome Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells
(Produced by Terence Tiller)

19/06/1955 J. R. R. Tolkien The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm’s Son
(An epilogue to the fragmentary Anglo-Saxon heroic poem ' The Battle of Maldon ') (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)

20/06/1955 Boccaccio Patient Grizelda
(Dioneus's Tale on the Tenth Day) (Last of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620 Arranged by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 22/06/1955

22/06/1955 Mungo MacCallum A Beach in Childhood
(Produced by Terence Tiller)

23/06/1955 Frank Kermode and lain Fletcher A Conversation at Merlou
(Verse translations by lain Fletcher, Edwin Morgan and Frank Kermode)

24/06/1955 William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Music by Carl Orff with The Ambrosian Singers and The New Symphony Orchestra - Leader. David McCallum ) (Conducted by Maurice Miles) (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 25/06/1955

26/06/1955 Ivy Compton-Burnett Pastors and Masters
(Adapted by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 30/06/1955

27/06/1955 George Lamming Ma and Pa
(A Barbados dialogue adapted for radio by Norman Hudis from George Lamming 's novel 'In the Castle of My Skin') (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 01/07/1955 and 23/08/1955

01/07/1955 Thomas Deloney The Widow’s Wooing
(An episode from ' The Pleasant and Delectable Historie of John Winchcombe , otherwise called Jacke of Newberie,') (Produced by Peter Duval Smith)

03/07/1955 C. F. Ramuz The Great War of the Sondrebond
(Translated and adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 07/07/1955

05/07/1955 Molière Tartuffe
(Translated by F. Anstey) (Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 10/07/1955 and 14/07/1955 and 12/09/1955

12/07/1955 Leonid Andreyev The Seven Who Were Hanged
(Arranged by Sasha Moorsom) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 13/07/1955

13/07/1955 W. B. Yeats Purgatory
(Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 16/07/1955

17/07/1955 Leonid Zorin The Guests
(Translated and adapted for broadcasting by David Tutaev) (Pianist, Josephine Lee) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 19/07/1955 and 30/09/1955

18/07/1955 David Lytton In A Blind Wilderness
(Production by Charles Parker) rpt 22/07/1955

21/07/1955 Alfred de Musset A Door Must Be Kept Open Or Shut
(Translated by Peter Meyer) (Produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 23/07/1955 and 03/09/1955

24/07/1955 H. A. L. Craig The Terrible Wild Beast
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Songs composed by Elizabeth Poston sung by Ian Wallace and Denis Quilley accompanied by Joan Rimmer and Charles Spinks) rpt 29/07/1955

26/07/1955 William Wycherley Three Comedies: 1
 LOVE IN A WOOD' or ' St. James's Park' (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 30/07/1955 and 02/12/1955

31/07/1955 Jean Anouilh Ardèle (or La Marguerite)
(Translated by Lucienne Hill and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) (Produced by Anthony Pelissier) rpt 11/08/1955 and 20/10/1955

02/08/1955 Jeaaan Anouilh Ardèle
A complete reading in French by Jean Anouilh (Produced by Michel Polac) rpt 13/08/1955 and 29/10/1955

03/08/1955 “Vive L’Oompa!”
Produced by Peter Duval Smith rpt 06/08/1955

09/08/1955 H. A. L. Craig  Farewell Companions
(A ballad-opera for broadcasting)  (Words by H. A. L. Craig and Music by William Alwyn)  (Production by Douglas Cleverdon)  rpt 11/08/1955

10/08/1955 Eric Ewens Slow Rises North
(Production by Christopher Sykes)

14/08/1955 Calderon Love After Death
or “The Tuzani of the Alpujarra Insurrection” (Translated by Roy Campbell and adapted by Helena Wood)  (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark) rpt 16/08/1955

15/08/1955 Eric Ewens The Great Cham
(Produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 17/08/1955

18/08/1955 Robert Oxton Bolt The Last of the Wine
(Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 18/08/1955

19/08/1955 Max Beerbohm Not That I Would Boast
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Christopher Sykes)  rpt 19/08/1955

20/08/1955 Virginia Woolf The Waves
(Excerpts from the novel selected and presented by Louis MacNeice)  rpt 20/08/1955

21/08/1955 William Wycherley Three Comedies: 2
 The Plain Dealer (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 26/08/1955

28/08/1955 Giles Cooper Lord of the Flies
(based on the novel by William Golding and produced by Archie Campbell) (With a section of Highgate School Choir, Choirmaster, Edward Chapman (Music and special effects composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen) rpt 31/08/195 and 22/11/1955

01/09/1955 I. A. Richards A Leak in the Universe
(Incidental music composed by Roberto Gerhard and produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 02/09/195

04/09/1955 Pierre de Marivaux The Confidence Trick
or ' Les Fausses Confidences '  (Translated by W. S. Merwin) (Music composed by James Bernard and conducted by John Hollingsworth and Production by Michael Bakewell) rpt 09/09/195 and 23/12/1955

04/09/1955 Max Beerbohm Enoch Soames
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

06/09/1955 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare - 1
' A Visitor to Dorset Garden'  (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (A series of four programmes)

08/09/1955 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare - 2
'Nemesis at Wycombe Abbey‘  (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (A series of four programmes)

11/09/1955 Philip Vellacott An Island in Time
(Music by Anthony Bernard  and radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 16/09/1955 and 04/10/1955

12/09/1955 Molière Tartuffe
(Translated by F. Anstey and adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster) (Music composed by James Bernard conducted by John Hollingsworth)

13/09/1955 Molière  Tartufffe
(A reading of the play in French by Fernand Ledoux) (Produced by Michel Polac)

14/09/1955 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare – 3
' A Smack of Hamlet ' (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (A series of four programmes)

17/09/1955 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare – 4
' The Trial of Ancient Iago'  (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (A series of four programmes)

18/09/1955 Euripides The Hippolytus
(The Oxford University Dramatic Society) (A new translation by Kenneth Cavander) (Directed by Casper Wrede)  (Radio presentation by Michael Bakewell) rpt 23/09/1955

19/09/1955 J. Bronowski My Brother Died
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

19/09/1955 Maurice Cranston  Rousseau in England
(Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 21/09/1955

25/09/1955 Pamela Hansford Johnson  Saint-Loup
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 28/09/1955

27/09/1955 William Wycherley Three Comedies: 3
The Country Wife (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 01/10/1955 and 15/12/1955

02/10/1955 Henry James  The Golden Bowl
(Dramatised by Mary Hope Allen) (Part 2: 'The Princess’) rpt 07/10/1955 (Note: BBC Genome gives the broadcast date of Part 2 as pre-dating the repeat of the broadcast of both parts on 07/10/1955, I presume that both parts were broadcast on 02/10/1955)

05/10/1955 Wolfgang Weyrauch The Japanese Fishermen
(Translated from the German by Harold Kurtz and Terence Tiller) ( Special effects devised by Tristram Cary and produced by Terence Tiller)  rpt 06/10/1955

07/10/1955 Henry James  The Golden Bowl
(Dramatised by Mary Hope Allen) (Part 1: 'The Prince’ and Part 2: 'The Princess’)

09/10/1955 Charles Cordier  The Beauty from Samos
(Based on the extant fragments of 'The Samian Woman ' by Menander)  (Translated from the French by Joanna Richardson and Patric Dickinson)  (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) rpt 12/10/1955

10/10/1955 Laurie Lee The Voyage of the Magellan
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall with music composed and directed by Brian Easdale) rpt 14/10/1955

16/10/1955 Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
(Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh with music by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark) (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 21/10/1955

23/10/1955 August Strindberg The Ghost Sonata
(A new English translation for broadcasting by Frederick Bradnum) (Music composed by Tristram Cary) rpt 28/10/1955

24/10/1955 François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Le Monde Comme Il Va
(Freely adapted by Rayner Heppenstall from a translation by Richard Aldington) rpt 26/10/1955

30/10/1955 Lope de Rueda Eufemia
(Translated by W. S. Merwin and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 03/11/1955

04/11/1955 Voltaire Candide or ' The Philosophy of Optimism' 
(Translated into a radio version and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) 

06/11/1955 Paul Claudel The Tidings Brought to Mary
(Translated by Louise Morgan Sill) (Production by Michael Bakewell) rpt 08/11/1955

01/11/1955 Mungo MacCallum  A Beach in Childhood
(Produced by Terence Tiller)

11/11/1955 Paul Claudel  The Hostage
(Translated and adapted by Edward Sackville –West) (Production by Raymond Raikes with incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) 

13/11/1955 Paul Claudel Partage de Midi
(A broadcast performance in French of the Jean-Louis Barrault production) (Produced for radio by J Weltman) rpt 18/11/1955

14/11/1955 Archibald MacLeish This Music Crept By Me
(Music composed by Antony Hopkins)   (Produced by D. G. Bridson

14/11/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 1.6

' The Meaning of the Ring '  (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 15/11/1955

15/11/1955 William Shakespeare  Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)  (Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) 

17/11/1955 Gertrude Hutchinson The Fabians and I
(Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 19/11/1955

20/11/1955 Denis Marion The Letter of the Law
(Translated and produced by Peter Watts) rpt 24/11/1955

21/11/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 2.6
‘Black Riders and Others' (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 23/11/1955

26/11/1955 Henry Reed The Great Desire I Had

27/11/1955 Amos Tutuola The Palm Wine Drunkard
(Arranged for broadcasting by Peter Duval Smith) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark)  (Special effects by the Ambrosian Singers) (Production by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 29/11/1955

28/11/1955 James Merrill The Bait
(Produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 01/12/1955

29/11/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 3.6
' Aragorn '  (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 30/11/1955

03/12/1955 Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) 

04/12/1955 Bertolt Brecht  Mother Courage
(Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) Adapted for radio by A. L. Lloyd with music by Paul Dessau conducted Edward Clark  (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 09/12/1955

04/12/1955 Oscar Wilde Salome

04/12/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 4.6
' Many Meetings ' (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 05/12/1955

05/12/1955 Michael Wharton Portrait of the Colonel
(Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 08/12/1955

06/12/1955 Charles Peguy A Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord
(An extract from ' Le Mystere de la Charité de Jeanne d'Arc' by Charles Peguy in a translation by Julien Green) (Production by Christopher Sykes)

11/12/1955 George Moore Ulick and Soracha
(from A Story-Teller's Holiday) (Script and production by E J King Bull) (Music composed and conducted by Peter Crossley –Holland) rpt 16/12/1955

11/12/1955 Giovacchino Forzano Sly
or The Story of the Sleeper Awakened (A lyric drama in three acts by Music by Wolf-Ferrari) (Translated and adapted for radio by Dennis Arundell) rpt 12/12/1955

11/12/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 5.6
'The Moria Gate '  (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 12/12/1955

13/12/1955 André Gide The Thirteenth Tree
(Translated by George D. Painter)  (Produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 17/12/1955

14/12/1955 Colette Creatures Great and Small - 'The One Who Came Back' 
(Translated by Enid McLeod) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Norman Wright) rpt 19/12/1955

17/12/1955 E. K. Ellis Hugh Latimer
(A dramatic poem by read by Robert Speaight) rpt 20/1955

18/12/1955 Gillian Richards The Dreamers
(Music composed by James Bernard conducted by John Hollingsworth) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 22/1955

18/12/1955 J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 6.6
' The Breaking of the Fellowship' (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) (Music composed and conducted by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 21/1955

20/12/1955 Henry Reed Vincenzo
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Music arranged by Denis Stevens)

26/12/1955 Ernest Reynolds  Candlemas Night
(Music composed by Malcolm Arnold conducted by Lionel Salter) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 30/12/1955

26/12/1955 Colette Creatures Great and Small - 'The Storm'
(Translated by Enid McLeod) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Norman Wright) rpt 29/12/1955

27/12/1955 Michael Innes  The Hawk and the Handsaw
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (Music by William Wordsworth) 

31/12/1955 Aristophanes  The Acharnians
(Translated from the Greek by Patric Dickinson) (Music by Christopher Whelen) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) 

Alistair Wyper 19 February 2017 (.....Many thanks - Ed)

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