Third Programme, Drama, 1954
Compiled by Alistair Wyper - many thanks..... ND / Jul 2016
The BBC Third Programme Plays 1954
01/01/1954 Paul Claudel - The Hostage
('L'Otage') (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Edward Sackville-West) (Production by Raymond Raikes with incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis)
02/01/1954 Anita Loos - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 28/02/1954
03/01/1954 August Strindberg - To Damascus
Part I (A play in three parts in a new translation and radio adaptation by Peter Watts) rpt 14/11/1954
03/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 1: Part 1 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts rpt 09/01/1954
05/01/1954 August Strindberg - To Damascus
Part II rpt 16/11/1954
07/01/1954 August Strindberg - To Damascus
Part III rpt 20/11/1954
09/01/1954 Honor Tracy - Promenade in Frysthaven
10/01/1954 Euripides - Helen
(Translated by Philip Vellacott with music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 12/01/1954 and 06/02/1854
10/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 1: Part 2 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
11/01/1954 Patric Dickinson - The Frontier of Darkness
rpt 13/01/1954 and 14/04/1954
15/01/1954 Luigi Pirandello - All for the Best
(‘Tutto per Bene') (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Henry Reed and produced by Wilfrid Grantham)
16/01/1954 Francis Watson - The Way to the Island
17/01/1954 Ivy Compton –Burnett: Men and Wives
(Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author)
17/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 2: Part 1 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
18/01/1954 Kay Cicellis - The Death of a Town
(Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens) rpt 20/01/1954 and 17/07/1954 and 06/11/1954
19/01/1954 W. B. Yeats - The Player Queen
(With music specially composed by John Buckland and the orchestra conducted by Patrick Saville) (Radio adaptation and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 23/01/1954 and 06/03/1954
22/01/1954 Charles Bertin - Christopher Columbus
(Translated by Henry Van Hoof and edited by Frederick Bradnum) (Music by Jacques Stehman conducted by Patrick Saville) (Production by Frederick Bradnum)
24/01/1954 Pedro Calderón de la Barca The Mayor of Zalamea Cantar 2:
Part 2 (A version of Edward Fitzgerald 's translation by Helena Wood with songs arranged by Dr. Eduardo Torner) in six parts rpt 26/01/1954 & 19/02/1954
24/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 1: Part 2 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
25/01/1954 Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood
(The first broadcast performance of the work especially written for the BBC with Richard Burton and Rachel Roberts) Produced by Douglas Cleverdon rpt 27/01/1954 and 20/02/1954 and 20/04/1954
28/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 2: Part (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller
29/01/1954 L. H. Myers - The Clio
(A radio script by Donald McWhinnie from the novel)
(Concertina player, Alf Edwards) Production by Donald McWhinnie
30/01/1954 T. C. Worsley - The Last Flare of the Lamp
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
31/01/1954 Algernon Charles Swinburne Chastelard
(Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) rpt 27/02/1954
31/01/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 3: Part 1 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
01/02/1954 Pamela Hansford Johnson - Albertine Regained
(Music arranged and performed by Michael Head) (The round ' Le furet du bois ' recorded by pupils of the Kensington Lycée) rpt 03/02/1954
04/02/1954 1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 3: Part 1 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts rpt 07/02/1954
05/02/1954 Henry Reed - A Very Great Man Indeed
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 06/05/1954
07/02/1954 William Shakespeare - King Lear
rpt 25/03/1954
07/02/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 3: Part 2 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
08/02/1954 El Poema de mio Cid
(The Poem of the Cid) Cantar 3: Part 3 (A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic) Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
09/02/1954 Michel Arnaud : Six-Twelve
(‘Le Premier Train pour l'Inconnu ') English version and production by E. J. King Bull rpt 11/02/1954 and 24/04/1954
12/02/1954 Patric Dickinson Wilfred Owen
14/02/1954 Tirso de Molina The Saint and the Sinner
(English version by John T. Boorman) (Songs set to music by Tristram Cary) rpt 16/02/1954
15/02/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 1.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 17/02/1954 and 31/07/1954
21/02/1954 Anton Chekhov Ivanov
(Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pugh from the translation by Constance Garnett) rpt 25/02/1954 and 19/03/1954 and 10/10/1954
22/02/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 2.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 04/08/1954
23/02/1954 Anthony Curtis The Perturbed Young Celt
rpt 24/02/1954 and 19/07/1954
28/02/1954 Robert Nichols Komuso
rpt 05/03/1954 and 10/04/1954
01/03/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 3.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 02/03/1954 and 14/08/1954
03/03/1954 Archibald MacLeish This Music Crept by Me
(Music composed by Antony Hopkins)
(Produced by D. G. Bridson)
07/03/1954 Dryden Amphitryon
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Watts
with music arranged and conducted by Dennis Arundeld from themes of Purcell) rpt 01/04/1954
08/03/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 4.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 12/03/1954 and 21/08/1954
09/03/1954 Molière Amphitryon
(Translated by John Ozell and adapted for broadcasting and produced by Martyn C. Webster with incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) rpt 03/04/1954
13/03/1954 S. N. Behrman Amphitryon 38
(Adapted from the French of Jean Giraudoux) (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by E. J. King Bull with music composed and directed by John Hotchkis)
14/03/1954 E. J . King Bull All Night at Mr Stanyhurst’s
(From the novel by Hugh Edwards with incidental music composed and directed by John Hotchkis) rpt 16/03/1954 and 07/05/1954 and 12/12/1954
15/03/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 5.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 17/03/1954 and 28/08/1954
18/03/1954 Fernando de Rojas Celestina
or ' The Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea ' (Translation by James Mabbe arranged for broadcasting by Peter Duval Smith with music composed and conducted by Roberto Gerhard= (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 20/03/1954
21/03/1954 Lope de Vega The Dog in the Manger
('El Perro del hortelano' ) (Translated by W. S. Merwin) (Production by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 26/03/1954 and 28/05/1954
22/03/1954 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote de La Mancha 6.6
(A translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris) rpt 01/09/1954
23/03/1954 Glyn Jones and T. J. Morgan The Misfortunes of Princess Heledd
(A translation of some ninth-century Welsh poems with a reconstructed narrative) (Produced by Elwyn Evans) rpt 27/03/1954
23/03/1954 Christopher Sykes The War Criminal
(A study in two parts of the trial of Marshal Ney in 1815) (Research editor Harold Kurtz)
28/03/1954 Frederick Bradnum No Commemorating Stone
(Music composed and conducted by Matyas Seiber) rpt 02/04/1954 and 17/05/1954
29/03/1954 Soeren Aabye Kierkegaard The Banquet
(Arranged by Rayner Heppenstall from the Lowrie translation of 1 Stages on Life's Way') (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 31/03/1954 and 09/07/1954
30/03/1954 J. Bronowski The Face of Violence
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with music by Antony Hopkins)
04/04/1954 James Forsyth Seelkie
(With music by Brian Easdale and a section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) rpt 05/04/1954
04/04/1954 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The Maid’s Tragedy
(Adapted for radio by Peter Watta) (Contemporary music collected and arranged by Jeremy Noble with fanfares composed by John Hotchkis) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 09/04/1954 and 06/08/1954 and 01/10/1954
05/04/1954 Herman Melville The Apple-Tree Table
(Adapted for broadcasting by Preston Lockwood)
07/04/1954 Christopher Sykes in collaboration with Harold Kurtz The Lavalette Affair
(Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 08/04/1954 and 02/07/1974
11/04/1954 Euripides Iphigeneia in Aulis
(English translation and radio production by Raymond Raikes with music composed by Anthony Bernard)
13/04/1954 André Obey Sacrifice to the Wind
(Translated from the French by John Whiting)
(Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) (Incidental music composed by John Hotchkis) rpt 17/04/1954 and 13/05/1954
15/04/1954 Moray McLaren The Highland Jaunt
(Echoes from James Boswell 's tour with Dr. Johnson to the Western Isles in the summer of 1773) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Calum Johnston (pipes) and Ian Whyte (harpsichord) rpt 16/04/1954
18/04/1954 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1
rpt 23/04/1954
19/04/1954 Michael Innes A Call at Bly
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 21/04/1954 and 15/09/1954
25/04/1954 Sophocles The Women of Trachis
(A new version of the Trachiniae of Sophocles by Ezra Pound and Axtlods) (Music specially composed by John Hotchkis) (Produced by D. G. Bridson and Christopher Sykes) rpt 01/05/1954 and 18/06/1954
26/04/1954 J. Bronowski My Brother Died
(Music by P. Racine Fricker) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with a section of the London Symphony Orchestra, Leader. Thomas Matthews, conducted by the composer, Repetiteur, Bryan Balkwill) rpt 27/04/1954
27/04/1954 Louis MacNeice Prisoner’s Progress
(Produced by Louis MacNeice) rpt 28/04/1954
02/05/1954 Tirso de Molina The Tickster of Seville and The Guest of Stone
('El Burlador de Sevilla')
(Newly translated by Roy Oampbell with music specially composed by Tristram Cary) (Musicians and singers conducted by Denys Darlow) (Radio adaptation and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 04/05/1954
09/05/1954 Christopher Sykes A Song of a Shirt
(Adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 14/05/1954 and 01/06/1854
11/05/1954 Eric Ewens The Black Dog
12/05/1954 Honor Tracy Trouble
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
16/05/1954 John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
(Adapted and produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 18/05/1954 and 26/06/1954
21/05/1954 Patric Dickinson The Secret Traveller
(A study of W. H. Davies) (1871-1940) rpt 22/05/1954 and 27/09/1954
23/05/1954 August Strindberg Easter
(English version and radio adaptation by Max Faber) (Produced by Wilfrid Grantham)
24/05/1954 Henry Reed The Private Life of Hilda Tablet
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
(Music composed by Donald Swann) rpt 26/05/1954 and 23/08/1954 and 09/11/1954
30/05/1954 ' Mr. S. Master of Art' (identity uncertain) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
(First published 1575) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 04/06/1954 and 14/07/1954
06/06/1954 Charles Vildrac S. S. Tenacity
(In an English version by Harold Bowen) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 08/06/1954 and 28/07/1954
07/06/1954 Catherine Duncan and Marion Michelle Taking French Leave
(With music by Norman Forber Kay) rpt 09/06/1954
10/06/1954 Maurice Cranston A Dialogue on Toleration
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 11/11/1954
12/06/1954 Maxim Gorki The Zykovs
(Translated by Alec Brown and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen)
13/06/1954 Padraic Fallon Steeple Jerkin
(Production by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 15/06/1954 and 10/07/1954
16/06/1954 James Joyce Ulysses
(A performance of two episodes from the novel ) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 19/06/1954 and 19/11/1954
20/06/1954 Michel de Ghelderode Sire Halewyn
(Translated by Gerard Hopkins from the French) (The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark) rpt 22/06/1954 and 21/07/1954
20/06/1954 Jules Laforgue Hamlet or ' The Consequences of Filial Piety ‘
(Translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 24/06/1954
27/06/1954 Author Unknown Apu Ollantay
(Adapted for radio by Angel Ara) (Translated from the Spanish by J. A. Camacho with music composed by Manuel Lazareno) rpt 01/07/1954
28/06/1954 August Stnindberg Easter
(English version and radio adaptation by Max Faber)
(Produced by Wilfrid Grantham)
30/06/1954 Jean Anouilh The Waltz of the Toreadors
(Translated by Lucienne Hill) (Radio adaptation by John Richmond and music by John Hotchkis) (Production by Raymond Raikes)
03/07/1954 Jean Anouilh Dinner with the Family
('Le Rendez-vous de Senlis') (English version by Edward Owen Marsh) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
04/07/1954 Euripides The Alcestis
(Translated by Richard Aldington) (Music by John Hotchkls)
(Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 07/07/1954 and 09/08/1954
05/07/1954 Laurence Kitchin The Trial of Dr. Bowdler
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 08/07/1954 and 13/12/1954
11/07/1954 Georg Buchner Danton’s Death
(Translated by John Holmstrom) (Music composed and conducted by Francis Chagrin) (The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 13/07/1954 and 20/08/1954
12/07/1954 Herman Melville Bartleby
(Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Leslie Stokes) rpt 16/07/1954
18/07/1954 Albert Camus L’Etranger’
(Translated and adapted by Sasha Moorsom) (Music composed by Roberto Gerhard) (Production by D. G. Bridson) rpt 23/07/1954
22/07/1954 Sean O'Faolain Imaginary Conversations - The Train to Banbury
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
22/07/1954 Federico Garcia Lorca The Marvellous Shoemaker’s-Wife
(' La Zapatera Prodigiosa ') (Translated by Roy Campbell) (Textual consultant, J. E. Varey with music composed and conducted by Matyas Seiber) (Radio adaptation and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 24/07/1954 and 31/08/1954
25/07/1954 Henrik Ibsen Brand
(A radio adaptation of the stage version in English of Ibsen's dramatic poem by James Forsyth from a literal translation by Evelyn C. Ramsden) (Produced by Val Gielgud)
30/07/1954 Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
(English version by Max Faber and production by Raymond Raikes)
01/08/1954 Jean Anouilh Leocadia
(Translated by Patricia Moyes with music by John Hotchkis)
(Radio production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 05/08/1954 and 15/10/1954
02/08/1954 Eric Ewens Slow Rises Worth
(Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 03/08/1954
08/08/1954 Johann Nestroy Liberty Comes to Krahwinkel
(Translated and freely adapted from
' Freiheit in Krahwinkel ' by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch) (Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston and directed by Patrick Savill and production by Norman Wright) rpt 13/08/1954 and 02/10/1954
11/08/1954 Anonymous Aucassin and Nicolette
(Translated and adapted for broadcasting by René Hague with music arranged from contemporary sources by Denis Stevens) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Marie Korchinska (harp) and Harry Danks (viola d'amore) Desmond Dupre (tenor viol)) rpt 12/08/1954 and 16/10/1954
15/08/1954 Jean Prieur The Court of Miracles
(Translated from the French by Rupert Gleadow and adapted for radio by Morven Cameron) (Production by Hugh Stewart) rpt 18/08/1954 and 07/10/1954
22/08/1954 W. B. Yeats The Hour-Glass
(Music composed and conducted by John Buckland)
(Production by Frederick Bradnum rpt 27/08/1954 and 16/09/1954
29/08/1954 Jean-Paul Sartre In the Mesh
(' L'Engrenage ') (A scenario by prepared for the microphone by John Keir Cross from the translation by Mervyn Savill) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 03/09/1954
03/09/1954 Edward Hyams Imaginary Conversations - The False Etruscan
(Production by Rayner Heppenstall)
04/09/1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 1
05/09/1954 William Shakespeare All’s Well That Ends Well
rpt 10/09/1954 and 26/10/1954
06/09/1954 Virginio Puecher The Battle of the Masks
(Translated and adapted by Henry Reed) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon ) rpt 08/09/1954
09/09/1954 Henry James The Turn of the Screw
(A version for broadcasting by E. J. King Bull)
11/09/1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 2
12/09/1954 Emmanuel Roblès An Armistice with Truth
('La Vérité est Morte') (Translated and adapted by Peter Watts) rpt 13/09/1954 and 02/11/1954
18/09/1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 3
19/09/1954 George du Maurier Peter Ibbetson
(A radio dramatisation by E. J. King Bull) rpt 24/09/1954 and 19/10/1954
22/09/1954 Pamela Hansford Johnson Albertine Regained
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (Music arranged and performed by Michael Head)
25/09/1954 D. H. Lawrence The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
(Adapted for broadcasting by Charles Spencer) (Produced by William Hughes in the BBC's Nottingham studios)
25/09/1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 4
26/09/1954 Ivy Compton-Burnett Manservant and Maidservant
(Adapted for broadcasting by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) (Production by Christopher Sykes)
28/09/1954 Padraic Fallon The Poplar
(Production by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 30/09/1954 and 13/11/1954
03/10/1954 Goethe Iphigeneia in Tauris
(A new translation by Roy Pascal) rpt 05/10/1954 and 27/11/1954
03/10/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART I (Cantos 1-5) rpt 06/10/1954
04/10/1954 Henry Fielding The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
(Edited by Eric Ewens and produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 08/10/1954
10/10/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART 2 (Cantos 6 - 11) rpt 13/10/1954
12/10/1954 Ivan Turgenev A Poor Gentleman
(Translated by Constance Garnett and adapted for radio and produced by Mary Hope Allen) (Music arranged and conducted by Alexis Chesnakov)
17/10/1954 Ugo Betti The Queen and the Rebels
(' La Regina e gli Insorti ') (Translated from the Italian and adapted for radio by Henry Reed) rpt 22/10/1954 and 11/12/1954
17/10/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART 3 (Cantos 12 - 17) rpt 21/10/1954
18/10/1954 Mungo MacCallum A Beach in Childhood
(Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 23/10/1954
24/10/1954 Calderon Belshazzar’s Feast
(An English version by Denis Florence MacCarthy) (Radio adaptation by Helena Wood and textual consultant. J. E. Varey) (Music composed by Tristram Cary and conducted by Patrick Savill) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 29/10/1954
24/10/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART 4 (Cantos 18 -22) rpt 27/10/1954
25/10/1954 Gwyn Williams Welsh Captain
(Produced by Elwyn Evans) rpt 30/10/1954
31/10/1954 Henry James The Pension Beaurepas
(Adapted and produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 05/11/1954 and 04/12/1954
31/10/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART 5 (Cantos 23 - 28) rpt 03/11/1954
01/11/1954 Author Unknown The Brothers
(Extracted by Rayner Heppenstall from the Popol Vuh or ' Book of the People (Music by William Wordsworth directed by John Hotchkis) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 04/11/1954
01/11/1954 Jules Supervielle Bolivar
(Translated by Gerard Hopkins and adapted and produced by R. D. Smith) (Songs arranged by A. L. Lloyd and Willy Richardson and the music played by Fitzroy Coleman , Tommy Eytte, Fred Perry and Leslie Week) rpt 07/11/1954 and 12/11/1954 and 17/12/1954
07/11/1954 Dante Alighieri The Inferno
(The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon) (A reading in six parts)
PART 6 (Cantos 29 - 34) rpt 10/11/1954
08/11/1954 Moray McLaren - The Highland Jaunt
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Calum Johnston (pipes) and Ian Whyte (harpsichord))
14/11/1954 Henry Reed - Emily Butter – An Occasion Recalled
(Music by Donald Swann and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 17/11/1954 and 14/12/1954
18/11/1954 William Shakespeare - A Lover’s Complaint
(Produced by George Rylands)
21/11/1954 John Whiting - Marching Song
(Adapted for radio and produced by Peter Watts) rpt 23/11/1954
21/11/1954 Robert Penn Warren - Brother to Dragons
(Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 24/11/1954
22/11/1954 Baldassare Castiglione - The Court Lady
(Translated and adapted by Laurence Kitchin from ‘II Cortigiano' ) (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 25/11/1954
26/11/1954 David Jones The Anathemata
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
29/11/1954 D. G. Bridson - The Quest of Gilgamesh
(Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 01/12/1854
30/11/1954 Julien Green - South
(Translated from the French by the author) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 30/12/1954
04/12/1954 Dorothy Baker - Poet and Child
(Produced by Terence Tiller)
05/12/1954 W. S. Merwin - The Mystery of Robert the Devil
(Newly translated by W. S. Merwin from the medieval French) (Music composed by James Bernard and the singers and orchestra conducted by Christopher Whelan) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 10/12/1954
07/12/1954 Max Beerbohm Not That I Would Boast
(Adapted for broadcasting by Christopher Sykes (Production by Christopher Sykes)
11/12/1954 Glyn Jones and T. J. Morgan - The Misfortunes of Princess Heledd
(Produced by Elwyn Evans)
15/12/1954 Patric Dickinson - The Real Voice
(Production by Joe Burroughs) rpt 18/12/1954
16/12/1954 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
19/12/1954 Euripides - The Ion
(Translated by H.D.) (Music by Anthony Bernard and radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 21/12/1954
20/12/1954 Dorothy Baker - In the Bosom of a Family
(Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 24/12/1954
23/12/1954 Jules Laforgue - Hamlet or The Consequences of Filial Piety
(Translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
25/12/1954 Max Beerbohm - Enoch Soames
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
26/12/1954 T. S. Eliot - The Confidential Clerk
(Produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 28/12/1954
27/12/1954 Pamela Hansford Johnson - Madame de Charlus
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (Music composed and piano music played by Michael Head) rpt 29/12/1954
Alistair Wyper, 9 July 2016
