Third Programme, Drama, 1950

01/01/1950 Henrik Ibsen Pillars of Society rpt 04/01/1950

07/01/1950 W. P. Rilla The End of a Childhood

10/01/1950 Max Beerbohm Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton rpt 12/01/1950 rpt 04/02/1950

11/01/1950 Stig Dagerman The Shadow of Death (Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair) rpt 14/01/1950

15/01/1950 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House rpt 18/01/1950

17/01/1950 John Lehmann The Inward Eye – 5  “The House” rpt 21/01/1950 and 11/02/1950

20/01/1950 James Thurber The White Deer

22/01/1950 James Forsyth Heloise rpt 25/01/1950 and 24/02/1950

24/01/1950 Compton Mackenzie A Year I Remember – 1900 rpt 27/01/1950

28/01/1950 Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation

29/01/1950 Franz Kafka The Trial (Adaptation and production by W. P . Rilla) rpt 01/02/1950 and 26/07/1950

30/01/1950 John Fletcher The Faithful Shepherdess (Arranged for broadcasting by Glynne Wickham) rpt 03/02/1950 and 21/02/1950 and 13/08/1950 and

16/08/1950 and 05/09/1950

05/02/1950 Sean O'Faolain Newman rpt 09/02/1950 and 27/02/1950

06/02/1950 Henrik Ibsen Ghosts rpt 10/02/1950

12/02/1950 Harley Granville-Barker The Voysey Inheritance

15/02/1950 Harley Granville-Barker The Madras House

18/02/1950 Louis MacNeice Trimalchio’s Feast

19/02/1950 James Joyce Exiles (Adapted for broadcasting by John Keir Cross) rpt 22/02/1950 and 17/03/1950

20/02/1950 Terence Tiller Portrait of Marjorie Fleming rpt 23/02/1950 and 13/03/1950

24/02/1950 Thomas Hardy The Queen of Cornwall rpt 27/02/1950

25/02/1950 David Garnett Thomas Love Peacock

26/02/1950 Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People rpt 01/03/1950

03/03/1950 Euripides Iphigeneia in Tauris (Translated by Philip Vellacott)

05/03/1950 Henry Reed The Unblest rpt 06/11/1950

06/03/1950 William Cooper Prince Genji rpt 08/03/1950 and 01/04/1950

07/03/1950 Henry Reed The Monument Part 1 rpt 10/03/1950 and 03/04/1950

09/03/1950 Racine Britannicus

12/03/1950 Euripides The Alcestis (Freely adapted by Ford Madox Ford) rpt 18/03/1950 and 04/04/1950

14/03/1950 Norman Nicholson The Inward Eye – 6 The Field rpt 16/03/1950 and 06/04/1950

19/03/1950 Maurice Carpenter The Story of Orpheus rpt 11/04/1950

22/03/1950 Portrait of James Joyce (Edited by W. R. Rodgers and produced by Maurice Brown)

23/03/1950 Christopher Sykes A Study in Loyalty rpt 24/03/1950 and 15/04/1950 and 12/08/1950

26/03/1950 Molière The Misanthrope rpt 29/03/1950

28/03/1950 J. Bronowski The Face of Violence rpt 30/03/1950 and 18/04/1950

02/04/1950 Joyce Grenfell and Stephen Potter How to Listen (New Edition) rpt 05/04/1950 and 24/04/1950

07/04/1950 Henri Ghéon The Way of the Cross rpt 08/04/1950 and 27/04/1950

09/04/1950 Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck rpt 12/04/1950

10/04/1950 Bernard Darwin A Year I Remember – 1913 rpt 14/04/1950

16/04/1950 Mary Frances Flack A Ram in the Thicket rpt 19/04/1950 and 12/05/1950

20/04/1950 Christopher Sykes Talleyrand in 1814 rpt 22/04/1950 and 11/05/1950

23/04/1950 Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm rpt 26/04/1950

25/04/1950 Terence Tiller The Baker’s Daughter rpt 29/04/1950 and 15/05/1950

30/04/1950 Euripides Hippolytus (From the recently published translation by Rex Warner) rpt 05/05/1950 and 23/05/1950

02/05/1950 Harold Nicolson Lambert Orme (A sketch from ' Some People ') arranged for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, rpt 03/05/1950 and 25/05/1950 and 14/10/1950

04/05/1950 Bernard Darwin A Year I Remember - 1913

07/05/1950 Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder rpt 10/05/1950

14/05/1950 Jean Anouilh Eurydice (English translation by Kitty Black Music with composed by John Hotchkis) rpt 19/05/1950 and 07/06/1950 and 03/12/1950

16/05/1950 Robert Kemp New Judgment on J M Barrie rpt 18/05/1950 and 10/06/1950

17/05/1950 James McNeill Whistler The Baronet and the Butterfly (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller with music by Anthony Smith-Masters) rpt 20/05/1950 and 05/06/1950

21/05/1950 Henrik Ibsen John Gabriel Borkman rpt 27/05/1950

26/05/1950 W. W. Jacobs The Boatswain’s Mate (Words and music by Ethel Smyth) rpt 29/05/1950

28/05/1950 John Millington Synge The Well of the Saints rpt 31/05/1950 18/06/1950

29/05/1950 Padraic Fallon Between the Two of Us rpt 03/06/1950 and 24/06/1950

04/06/1950 Rose Macaulay A Year I Remember – 1913 Annus Mrabilis rpt 09/06/1950 and 29/06/1950

06/06/1950 Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Wake rpt 08/06/1950

11/06/1950 James Forsyth The Other Heart rpt 15/06/1950 and 04/07/1950

12/06/1950 Maurice Baring Habent Sua Fata Libelli (“Books have their fates”) rpt 14/06/1950 and 08/07/1950

20/06/1950 Kathleen Raine The Travelling Fair (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) rpt 22/06/1950 and 15/07/1950

27/06/1950 Rosalind Heywood Ariadne (An English version of the play “Le Chemin de Crete” by Gabriel Marcel) rpt 30/06/1950 and 16/07/1950

02/07/1950 Alfred Tennyson Queen Mary (Adapted for broadcasting by Tyrone Guthrie) rpt 05/07/1950

09/07/1950 Yvonne ffrench and Douglas Cleverdon The Palace of Glass rpt 02/08/1950

12/07/1950 Aeschylus The Agamemnon (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes from the English translation by Louis MacNeice) rpt 18/07/1950 and 04/08/1950

13/07/1950 Alfred de Musset On Ne Badine Pas Avec L’Amour rpt 17/07/1950

19/07/1950 Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell How to Travel rpt 21/07/1950 and 07/08/1950

23/07/1950 Paul Claudel Partage de Midi (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Robert Speaight from a version by Jonathan Griffin) rpt 28/07/1950 and 14/08/1950

30/07/1950 Thomas Love Peacock Headlong Hall (Adapted for broadcasting by Denis Cannan. The music composed and conducted by Anthony Bernard) rpt 03/08/1950 and 26/08/1950

01/08/1950 Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud L’Impromptu de Marigny rpt 05/08/1950 and 08/09/1950

06/08/1950 Terence Tiller Lilith rpt 11/08/1950 and 02/09/1950

08/08/1950 Geoffrey Chaucer The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (Spoken in contemporary pronunciation by Nevill Coghill and with an introduction by him) rpt 10/08/1950 and 29/09/1950

17/08/1950 Henry Reed Return to Naples rpt 19/08/1950 and 09/09/1950

22/08/1950 W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood The Ascent of F6 rpt 24/08/1950 and 15/09/1950

23/08/1950 Molière Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (A shortened version of Moliere's comedy in an English adaptation by Miles Malleson) rpt 04/09/1950

27/08/1950 Lytton Strachey A Son of Heaven rpt 31/08/1950 and 17/09/1950

28/08/1950 Richard Brinsley Sheridan St Patrick’s Day

29/08/1950 Alan Pryce-Jones A Year I Remember 1935 rpt 30/08/1950 and 23/09/1950 and 11/11/1950

03/09/1950 Anthony Hope Education (An episode from ' The Dolly Dialogues ') rpt 07/09/1950 and 30/09/1950

03/09/1950 Walter Savage Landor Hellenics (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 04/09/1950

GAP IN GENOME LISTINGS FROM 10/09/1950 to 14/09/1950

16/09/1950 William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra rpt 01/10/1950

19/09/1950 Federico Garcia Lorca Blood Wedding (English version by George Leeson and adaptation by George Ronald Hill)

24/09/1950 Jean Cocteau La Machine Infernale (Adapted for radio from the English translation by Carl Wildman) rpt 26/09/1950

04/10/1950 Rodney Ackland The Dark River rpt 06/10/1950

08/10/1950 Sophocles The Antigone (An English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald with music composed and directed by John Hotchkis) rpt 10/10/1950 and 04/11/1950

GAP IN GENOME LISTINGS FROM 15/10/1950 to 02/11/1950

03/11/1950 Christopher Fry Venus Observed rpt 21/11/1950

05/11/1950 Christopher Sykes Civis Britannus rpt 09/11/1950 and 29/11/1950

07/11/1950 Dennis Cannan The Moth and the Star (Based on the ' Liber Amorls ' of William Hazlitt) rpt 10/11/1950 and 30/11/1950

08/11/1950 Henry Reed The Monument Part 2

12/11/1950 Federico Garcia Lorca Yerma rpt 16/11/1950

14/11/1950 William Shakespeare Coriolanus

15/11/1950 Michael Innes The Road to Dunsinane rpt 17/11/1950 and 09/12/1950

19/11/1950 Harley Granville-Barker His Majesty rpt 24/11/1950

07/12/1950 Rayner Heppenstall The Battle for St. David’s

10/12/1950 Henrik Ibsen The Lady from the Sea rpt 13/12/1950

11/12/1950 Harold Nicolson Miss Plimsoll (A sketch from ' Some People ') (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

17/12/1950 Gabriel Marcel The End of Things (La Fin des Temps) (First broadcast by Radiodiffusion Franchise during the present year) (English version by Rosalind Heywood and E. J. King Bull) rpt 20/12/1950

24/12/1950 Laurence Housman Possession

27/12/1950 August Strindberg Lucky Peter’s Travels (In a new translation by Peter Watts with music specially composed by John Hotchkis and played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra) rpt 30/12/1950

28/12/1950 Gil Vicente Auto de La Sibila Casandra (A Christmas mystery play first played in 1513 in the presence of Queen Lianor of Portugal)

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Compiled by Alistair Wyper



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