Third Programme:
Drama, 1957
Compiled by Alistair Wyper
The BBC Third Programme Plays 1957
01/01/1957 Gerard McLarnon The Good Journey
02/01/1957 Jeremy Sandford It Is Forever (Produced by Terence Tiller)
03/01/1957 Pamela Hansford Johnson The Duchess at Sunset (The first of a group of Proust reconstructions) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
04/01/1957 Henrik Ibsen Brand (Radio adaptation by James Forsyth from a literal translation by Evelyn C. Ramsden) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 05/03/1957
05/01/1957 Henry de Montherlant Port-Royal (Translated from the French by Robert Speaight) (Produced by Michael Bakewell)
06/01/1957 Euripides The Bacchae (Translated by D. W. Lucas) (Music by Anthony Bernard) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
06/01/1957 Clifford Dyment A Willing Young Man (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 09/01/1957 and 12/09/1957
07/01/1957 Thomas Blackburn Place of Meeting (A Footnote to the Bacchae of Euripides) (Music by Anthony Bernard) (Production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 08/01/1957 and 17/05/1957
10/01/1957 Pamela Hansford Johnson Madame De Charlus (The second of a group of Proust reconstructions) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (Music composed and piano music played by Michael Head)
11/01/1957 Patric Dickinson The Non-Combatant (Production by Joe Burroughs)
12/01/1957 General Burgoyne The Heiress (Adapted for radio by Helena Wood) (Produced by Martyn C. Webster)
13/01/1957 Wyndham Lewis Tarr (Incidental music composed by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (First broadcast 18 July 1956)
13/01/1957 Samuel Beckett All That Fall (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 19/01/1957 and 23/02/1957 and rpt 19/03/1957
14/01/1957 Albrecht Goes The Burnt Offering (Translated by Michael Hamburger) (Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 15/01/1957 and 14/08/1957
16/01/1957 Iain Fletcher Love’s Duel
16/01/1957 Marcel Proust Swann in Love (The third of a group of Proust reconstructions by Pamela Hansford Johnson) ( Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
18/01/1957 - R. S. Thomas Border Blues (A poem for voices) (Produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies)
21/01/1957 Francis Watson I Shot the Albatross (Produced by Maurice Brown) rpt 24/01/1957
22/01/1957 John Barton The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama) 4-Mystery Plays: The Betrayal, Trial, and Crucifixion (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) rpt 16/02/1957
23/01/1957 Sybille Bedford A Legacy (Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) (Produced by Christopher Sykes)
25/01/1957 Marcel Proust Albertine Regained (The fourth of a group of Proust reconstructions by Pamela Hansford Johnson) ( Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
26/01/1957 Anton Chekhov The Wood Demon (Translated by David Tutaev) (Music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
27/01/1957 Sean O'Casey The Plough and the Stars (Adapted for broadcasting by Alec Macdonald) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 31/01/1957
27/01/1957 Nirad C. Chaudhurt A Passage to England 1.4 'Now that April's there' (Produced by Gerard Mansell)
28/01/1957 Simone Weil Venise Sauvée (Translated and arranged by Richard Rees) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 29/01/1957
29/01/1957 Nirad C. Chaudhurt A Passage to England 2.4 'The Sons of their Fathers' (Produced by Gerard Mansell)
30/01/1957 Marcel Proust Saint-Loup (The fifth of a group of Proust reconstructions by Pamela Hansford Johnson) ( Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
01/02/1957 Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya (Translated from the Russian by David Tutaev) (Music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) (Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company) (Introduction to the four acts spoken by Peter Wyngarde) (Incidental music played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra (leader, Emanuel Hurwitz ) conducted by the composer)
03/02/1957 Shakespeare Apocrypha: The Lamentable and True Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham in Kent (Produced and adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes) rpt 05/02/1957
04/02/1957 Denis Constanduros The Last Days of Tolstoy (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 06/02/1957
07/02/1957 Pamela Hansford Johnson A Window at Montjouvain (The last of a group of six Proust reconstructions) (Produced by Raynpr Heppenstall) (Music composed and piano music played by Michael Head with a septet led by Granville Jones)
08/02/1957 Ugo Betti Crime on Goat Island (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Henry Reed) (Music by William Wordsworth) (Produced by John Gibson) (First broadcast 7 October 1956)
09/02/1957 Patric Dickinson The Dark Angel (Production by Joe Burroughs)
10/02/1957 Federico Garcia Lorca Dona Rosita La Soltera (A poem of Granada) (A version bv Selma Vaz Dias from the translation by C. A. Rossner) (Piano music played by Elena Kudian) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 27/04/1957
10/02/1957 Aaron Kramer The Tinderbox (Incidental music by Tristram Cary) (Produced by Terence Tiller rpt 12/02/1957
11/02/1957 H. A. L. Craig Sons of Pride (Produced by David Thomson) rpt 13/02/1957 and 26/08/1957
14/02/1957 Samuel Johnson Rasselas (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller)
17/02/1957 John Barton The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama) 5—Mysteries, Miracles. and Moralities - The Resurrection and Ascension (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) rpt 22/02/1957 and 12/03/1957
19/02/1957 James Joyce Stephen Dedalus (Adapted by Donald Jonson and Clifford Williams from James Joyce 's ' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and ' Stephen Hero ') Part I rpt 04/04/1957
20/02/1957 James Joyce Stephen Dedalus (Adapted by Donald Jonson and Clifford Williams from James Joyce 's ' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and ' Stephen Hero ') Part 2 rpt 05/04/1957
24/02/1957 Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock (Adapted for broadcasting by Patrick Riddell) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 01/03/1957
25/02/1957 Ronald Firbank Caprice (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 27/02/1957 and 02/08/1957
26/02/1957 Molière The Misanthrope (Translated from the French by John Ozell (Music by Anthony Bernard) (Radio adaptation and production by Norman Wright)
28/02/1957 Molière Le Misanthrope (A broadcast performance in French of the Jean-Louis Barrault production) (Produced for radio by J. Weltman)
02/03/1957 H. A . L. Craig The Common Wind (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) (First broadcast 9 September 1956)
03/03/1957 Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding (Adapted for radio and produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 08/03/1957 and 20/04/1957
06/03/1957 John Beckett My Ophelia (Narrated by John Beckett)
06/03/1957 Nikolai Gogol The Diary of a Madman (Translated by Prince Mirsky Music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle) (Production by H. B. Fortuin) rpt 11/04/1957 and 16/08/1957
10/03/1957 David Lindsay A Voyage to Arcturus (Dramatic script and production by E. J. King Bull) (First broadcast 24 June 1956)
11/03/1957 Eugene lonesco The Picture (Translated by Donald Watson) (Production by Michael Bakewell) rpt 15/03/1957 and 29/04/1957
12/03/1957 Peter Green Portrait of Ovid (Narrated by the author) (First broadcast 7 May 1956)
17/03/1957 John Barton The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama) 6-Moralities: Allegorical Drama - The Pride of Life ' (c. 1405) Extracts from ' The Castle of Perseverance' (c. 1425) Extract from ' Mind, Will, and Understanding' (c. 1460) Extract from ' Mankind ' (c.1475) 'Everyman' (c. 1495) rpt 22/03/1957 and 12/04/1957
17/03/1957 Sophocles The King and the Prophet (Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert Music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle) rpt 19/03/1957
18/03/1957 Jean Cocteau Opium (An essay in experimental radio devised by Andre Almuro and adapted by him from ' Le Journal d'une Disintoxication ') (The English production in a translation by Naomi Lewis supervised by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 21/03/1957 and 16/09/1957
20/03/1957 Edward Hyams Lilliput Revisited (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (First broadcast 19/09/1956)
24/03/1957 Helena Wood A Fighting Man (Produced by Norman Wright) rpt 29/03/1957
25/03/1957 Lawrence Durrell Sappho (A play in verse) (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller) (Incidental music composed by Anthony Smith-Masters with Marie Goossens (harp) and René Soames (tenor)) rpt 28/03/1957 and 07/09/1957
26/03/1957 Jean Anouilh The Lark (Translated by Christopher Fry) (Production by Val Gielgud) (First broadcast 11/11/1956)
27/03/1957 Edward Scobie The Humble Instrument of Biographical Zeal (Produced by Terence Tiller)
30/03/1957 Robert Baldick The Trial of Madame Bovary rpt 02/04/1957
31/03/1957 August Strindberg The Father (Adapted for broadcasting by Max Faber from his English version) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 02/04/1957 and 10/08/1957
01/04/1957 Patrick Anderson A Case of Identity (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 03/04/1957 and 23/09/1957
06/04/1957 Aristophanes The Frogs (A new English version by Dudley Fitts with music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen) (First broadcast 01/10/1956)
07/04/1957 Sean O'Casey The Silver Tassie (Music composed, arranged and conducted by John Hotchkis Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 11/04/1957
09/04/1957 E. J. King Bull The Repair of Heaven (From ' The Dream of the Red Chamber ' by Tsaoh Hsueh-Chin and Kao Ngoh as translated from the Chinese by Chi-Chen Wang) (Music composed and conducted by Peter Crossley-Holland) (Production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 13/04/1957
10/04/1957 Louis MacNeice Carpe Diem (A twentieth-century tribute to Horace produced by Louis MacNeice) (First broadcast 08/10/1956)
15/04/1957 Michael Wharton The Young England Party (Production by Christopher Sykes) (First broadcast 28/11/1956)
16/04/1957 John Barton The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama) 7-Moral Interludes: Secular Entertainment ' Fulgens and Lucrece ' Extract from ' Mundus et Infans ' Extract from ' Hickscorner ' The first part of ' Magnyfycence ' rpt rpt 18/04/1957 and 08/05/1957
17/04/1957 Terence Tiller The Passion of Our Lord (The medieval Cornish play freely translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller Music composed by Elizabeth Poston) (Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson with Maurice Bevan (baritone) and a section of the Ambrosian Singers) (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 19/04/1957
21/04/1957 Shakespeare Apocrypha: A Yorkshire Tragedy (Music by Geoffrey Wright sung and played by Elton Hayes) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 23/04/1957
24/04/1957 Vidia Naipaul B. Wordsworth (Dramatised by Vidia Naipaul and John Stockbridge from the story by Vidia Naipaul) (Produced by R. D. Smith) (Guitar played by Fitzroy Coleman) rpt 26/04/1957 and 07/08/1957 and 04/12/1957
26/04/1957 G. Lowes Dickinson A Modern Symposium (Arranged for radio by Sasha Moorsom) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) (First broadcast 06/10/1956)
28/04/1957 Ugo Betti Landslide (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Harry McWilliam) (Music composed by Christopher Whelen) (Production by John Gibson) rpt 03/05/1957 and 29/05/1957 and 14/09/1957
30/04/1957 Harold Kurtz Eugenie the Second (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 04/05/1957 and 25/10/1957
01/05/1957 William Beckford The Palace of Subterranean Fire Four Arabian tales by William Beckford 1—" Nouronihar and the Caliph Vathek ' (Adapted by Rayner Heppenstall (Translated from the French by the Rev. Samuel Henley) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
02/05/1957 Samuel Beckett Fin de Partie (A studio performance, in French, of the stage production by Roger Blin)
05/05/1957 Sean O'Casey Red Roses For Me (Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 07/05/1957
06/05/1957 Eugene Ionesco La Photo Du Colonel (Music by Pierre Barbaud) (Produced by Michel Polac in collaboration with the Club d'Essai of RTF, and recorded in their studios La Photo du Colonel (to be broadcast in the original French) has been adapted by the author from his story published in the Nouvelle Revue Française) (First broadcast 02/10/1956)
09/05/1957 1957 William Beckford The Palace of Subterranean Fire Four Arabian tales by William Beckford 2 —'Prince Alasi and Firouz-Firouzkah’ (Adapted by Rayner Heppenstall (Translated from the French by the Rev. Samuel Henley) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
12/05/1957 John Barton The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama) 8-Interludes: The More Group 'Calisto and Melibaea' by John Rastell (printed c. 1630) 4 John John the Husband, Tyb the Wife, and Sir John the Priest' by John Heywood (between 1621 and 1531) 'The Play of the Weather' by John Heywood rpt 15/05/1957 and 06/06/1957
13/05/1957 René Hague La Bonne Lorraine (An account of the rehabilitation of Jeanne d'Arc) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
14/05/1957 William Beckford The Palace of Subterranean Fire Four Arabian tales by William Beckford 3-' Barkiarolth, Son of Ormossouf ' (Translation by F. T. Marzials revised and arranged by Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
16/05/1957 John Mortimer The Dock Brief (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) (Produced by Nesta Pain) rpt 18/05/1957 and 03/08/1957
20/05/1957 William Beckford The Palace of Subterranean Fire Four Arabian tales by William Beckford 4-Zulkais's Story (Translated by F. T. Marzlals) Epilogue (Translated by the Rev. Samuel Henley)
22/05/1957 Laurie Lee Black Saturday, Red Sunday (Production by Louis MacNeice) (First broadcast 14/11/1956)
23/05/1957 Christopher Isherwood Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Adapted for radio by Eric Ewens) rpt 24/05/1957
26/05/1957 Aristophanes The Peace (Newly translated by Patric Dickinson) (Music by Christopher Whelen) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 28/05/1957 and 26/07/1957
27/05/1957 Beowulf PART 1 (Translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for broadcasting by David Wright with music composed by Humphrey Searle) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (With Osian Ellis (harp)) rpt 31/05/1957
28/05/1957 Constantine Trypanis Leuconia, The Drowned City (Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 30/05/1957 and 08/11/1957
01/06/1957 George Barker The Seraphina or ‘Round the Heart in Any Year' (Music composed by Lennox Berkeley) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer) (Musette accordion, Albert Delroy)
02/06/1957 Ivy Compton-Burnett A Father and His Fate (Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) rpt 08/06/1957 and 05/08/1957 and 28/09/1957
03/06/1957 Beowulf PART 2 (Translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for broadcasting by David Wright with music composed by Humphrey Searle) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 07/06/1957
04/06/1957 Padraic Fallon Last and Final Appearance (Produced by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 05/06/1957 and 08/06/1957
09/06/1957 The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) 9-Late Moralities: The Follies of Youth and Protestant Polemics 'Nice Wanton' (c. 1547-53) ' King Johan ' by John Bale (c. 1547) rpt 12/06/1957 and 03/07/1957
10/06/1957 Dorothy Baker Guest and Stranger (Production by Christopher Sykes)
11/06/1957 André Gide Prometheus Misbound (Adapted by George D. Painter and Ernest Watkins) (Produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 13/06/1957 and rpt 20/07/1957
11/06/1957 Beowulf PART 3 (Translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for broadcasting by David Wright with music composed by Humphrey Searle) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 14/06/1957
13/06/1957 Patric Dickinson The Knuckleduster (Production by Joe Burroughs)
16/06/1957 Gerhart Hauptmann The Rats (Translated and adapted for radio by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) (Produced by H. B. Fortuin) rpt 21/06/1957 and 13/08/1957
19/06/1957 Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Programme suggested by Eileen Ellenbogen) rpt 26/12/1957
22/06/1957 David Hume The Argument From Design (First of two programmes from David Hume 's ' Dialogues) ‘Concerning Natural Religion' (Arranged by Richard Peters) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
23/06/1957 Wyndham Lewis The Revenge For Love (Music composed by Roberto Gerhard) (Production by D. G. Bridson) rpt 28/06/1957 and 19/08/1957
24/06/1957 David Hume The Problem of Evil (Second of two programmes from David Hume 's ' Dialogues) ‘Concerning Natural Religion' (Arranged by Richard Peters) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
25/06/1957 Sean O'Casey Bedtime Story (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by John Gibson) rpt 27/06/1957
26/06/1957 Gerhart Hauptmann Elga (A new English version by Donald McWhinnie) (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 29/06/1957 and 30/08/1957
30/06/1957 Brian Way The Writing of the Waves (Compiled and edited by the author from the published diaries of Virginia Woolf) (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 01/07/1957
02/07/1957 Virginia Woolf The Waves (Excerpts from the novel selected and presented by Louis MacNeice) (First broadcast 18/03/1955)
04/07/1957 Henrik Ibsen Ghosts (Adapted for broadcasting by Max Faber from his new English version) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 06/07/1957 and 30/10/1957
05/07/1957 Eugene lonesco L’Impromptu De L’Alma or ‘The Shepherd's Chameleon’ (Translated by Sasha Moorsom) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 10/07/1957
06/07/1957 Eugene lonesco The Motor Show (Translated by Sasha Moorsom) (Music composed by Pierre Barbaud) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 11/07/1957
07/07/1957 George Barker Oriel O’Hanlon or In the shade of the old apple tree (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 10/07/1957
09/07/1957 The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) 10—Drama in the Schools: The Classical Influence on English Comedy 'Jacob and Esau' (c. 1557) ' Ralph Roister Doister ' by Nicholas Udall (c. 1557) Music composed by Anthony Bernard with the London Chamber Singers and the London Chamber Players (Leader. Lionel Bentley, conducted by the composer) rpt 13/07/1957 and 31/07/1957
12/07/1957 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age Part 1 'The Childermass' (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (First broadcast 24/05/1955)
14/07/1957 Pirandello Man, Beast and Virtue (Translated by Edward Eager) (Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) (Music composed and conducted by Alan Paul and played by a clarinet and string quartet, led by Max Jaffa) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 18/07/1957
15/07/1957 Alexander Blok The Twelve (Adapted and translated into Scots by Sydney Goodsir Smith) (Introduced by Sydney Goodsir Smith) (Produced by George Bruce)
16/07/1957 Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose The Birth of an Opera -5- ' Pelleas et Melisande ‘ (An illustrated study in the origins of Debussy's opera in scenes from Maeterlinck's play ' PELLEAS ET MELISANDE') (Produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 19/07/1957
17/07/1957 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age Part 2 ' Monstre Gai ' SCENE: THE MAGNETIC CITY (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (First broadcast 26/05/1955)
21/07/1957 Pio Baroja Paradox, King (Translated by Nevill Barbour) (Edited for radio by Adrian Brunei) (Music composed by Humphrey Searle) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 24/07/1957
22/07/1957 Wyndham Lewis The Human Age ' Malign Fiesta' SCENE: HELL (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (First broadcast 28/05/1955)
25/07/1957 Patric Dickinson The Old Squire (A study of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) narrated by Patric Dickinson) rpt 27/07/1957 and 11/12/1957
28/07/1957 Romain Rolland July The Fourteenth (Translated by John Holmstrom) (Adapted and produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 29/07/1957
30/07/1957 Ingeborg Bachmann The Cicadas (Translated from the German by Christopher Holme) (Incidental music composed by Hans Werner Henze) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 01/08/1957
04/08/1957 The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) 11-Drama at the Universities and Inns of Court Gammer Gurton's Needle' (c. 1550) 'Gorboduc ' (c. 1562) rpt 08/08/1957 and 05/09/1957
06/08/1957 Philip O'Connor The Poet Arrested (Produced by David Thomson) rpt 09/08/1957
11/08/1957 Denis Diderot Rameau’s Nephew (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Richard N. Coe) (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 12/08/1957 and 15/11/1957
15/08/1957 Giles Cooper The Disagreeable Oyster (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 21/08/1957
17/08/1957 Marivaux Le Jeu De L’Amour Et Du Hasard (Comedy in three acts by performed by members of the Comedie Franchise on gramophone records in French) (Produced by Maurice Escande)
18/08/1957 Gerard McLarnon Abandon All Remorse or Some Experiences of an Irish Strolling Player (Production by Francis Dillon)
20/08/1957 Anne Ridler The Mask (Music composed bv Robin Milford conducted by Marcus Dods) (Produced by R. D. Smith) 24/08/1957
22/08/1957 Val Secretan The Bishop Spoiler (A study of the Marprelate Press Controversy) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 23/08/1957
25/08/1957 Shakespeare Apocrypha: The Merry Devil of Edmonton (Adapted for broadcasting by Peter Watts) (Produced by Peter Watt) rpt 28/08/1957
27/08/1957 René Hague The Chatelaine of Vergy (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 30/08/1957
31/08/1957 Lewis Carrol 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)
01/09/1957 Henry James The American (Produced and aadapted for broadcasting in two parts by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 03/09/1957
02/09/1957 Ernst Schnabel The Sixth Canto PART 1 (A variation in three episodes on the theme of the Odyssey) (Translated by Wolfgang von Einsiedel and Dorothy Baker) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 06/09/1957
08/09/1957 Ernst Schnabel The Sixth Canto PART 2 (A variation in three episodes on the theme of the Odyssey) (Translated by Wolfgang von Einsiedel and Dorothy Baker) (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 10/09/1957
08/09/1957 H. A. L. Craig The Tree Has Arms (A programme on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381) (Music by William Wordsworth) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 13/09/1957
09/09/1957 The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) 12-The Professional Theatres Popular Drama 'The Spanish Tragedy' (1585-7) by Thomas Kyd followed by Will Kempe 's ' Jig of Rowland' rpt 11/09/1957 and 02/10/1957
15/09/1957 Ernst Schnabel The Sixth Canto PART 3 (A variation in three episodes on the theme of the Odyssey) (Translated by Wolfgang von Einsiedel and Dorothy Baker) (Production by Christopher Sykes) ) rpt 20/09/1957
17/09/1957 Andre Gide Les Caves Du Vatican (A new translation by George D. Painter of the farce) (Produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 19/09/1957
18/09/1957 The First Stage (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Edited and produced by Raymond Raikes) 13--Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of English Didactic Drama (An illustrated talk in which John Barton reviews the series) (Scenes from the earlier programmes are repeated) rpt 19/09/1957 and rpt 11/10/1957
22/09/1957 Audiberti Alarica (Translated by Henry Reed from ' Le Mal Court') (Princess Alarica's song set by Bernard Keefe) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 26/09/1957
24/09/1957 Alexander Blok The Rose and the Cross (Translation by L. R. Lewitter Revised and arranged by Rayner Heppenstall) Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 25/09/1957
28/09/1957 Michael Innes The Descent from Parnassus (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (First broadcast 13/05/1956)
29/09/1957 Maxim Gorky Yegor Bulichov (Translated by Gibson Cowan and adapted for broadcasting by Anthony Jacobs) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 03/10/1957
29/09/1957 Margaret Stanley-Wrench An Old Woman Remembering (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 20/12/1957
06/10/1957 Jules Romains Donogoo (Translated by Geoffrey Brereton) (Produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 10/10/1957
07/10/1957 Frederick Bradnum Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt Tuesday 29 March 1988 on BBC Radio 3
08/10/1957 Patric Dickinson The Song of the Shirt (Production by Joe Burroughs) rpt 09/10/1957
13/10/1957 Rayner Heppenstall Morel (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 17/10/1957
15/10/1957 Sophocles 'OEDIPUS THE KING' (A new translation by C. A. Trypanis) (Music composed by Richard Drakeford and played by Edward Selwyn (oboe) and Joy Hall (cello)) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 18/10/1957
20/10/1957 Ugo Betti Irene (Translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed from 'Irene Innocente’) rpt 22/10/1957
23/10/1957 George Ewart Evans The Golden Bird – An Ode for Radio rpt 24/10/1957
27/10/1957 Alfred de Musset May Night (Translation by Norman Cameron of ' La Nuit de Mai') (Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall)
01/11/1957 Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter (A melodrama for radio: with 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) (First broadcast on January 5th 1955)
03/11/1957 Alain-René Lesage Turcaret (Translated by W. S. Merwin with music by Alan Pau)l (Produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 05/11/1957
06/11/1957 Kingsley Amis Touch and Go (Produced by David Thomson) rpt 07/11/1957
10/11/1957 Alfred de Musset August Night (Translation by Norman Cameron of 'La Nuit d'Août' (Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall) 10/11/1957 Gerard McLarnon The Back Window (Produced by Sam Hanna Bell and Francis Dillon in the BBC's Belfast studios) rpt 13/11/1957
11/11/1957 Don Quixote (Radio adaption and production by Raymond Raikes from the English translation of John Ormsby) (Music by Maurice Ohana)
12/11/1957 Frederick Bradnum No Going Home (A recollection of 1940 Written and produced by Frederick Bradnum) (Music composed by Humphrey Searle) rpt 14/11/1957
15/11/1957 Anton Chekhov The Evils of Tobacco (A monologue in one scene) (Translated by Richard Newnham) (Read by Peter Woodthorpe) rpt 19/12/1957
17/11/1957 Fyodor Dostoevsky The Trial of Mitya Karamazov (An adaptation from the novel by David Tutaev) rpt 20/11/1957
17/11/1957 Alfred de Musset October Night (Translation by Norman Cameron of ' La Nuit d'Octobre' (Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall)
19/11/1957 John Mortimer ‘I Spy’ (A private detective pursues his unromantic trade with unusual results) (Produced by Nesta Pain) rpt 22/11/1957
26/11/1957 Aristophanes ‘Lysistrata’ (Newly translated by Patric Dickinson) (Music by Christopher Whelen) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 29/11/1957
27/11/1957 Anthony Curtis A Portrait of George Gissing (Drawn from the works of his contemporaries and from his own writings, including some unpublished material from his journals) (Compiled and narrated by Anthony Curtis with a contribution from Alfred C. Gissing) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 28/11/1957
01/12/1957 Alfred de Musset Love Is No Laughing Matter or On ne Badine pas avec l'Amour (Translated and adapted for radio by Russell McKinnon Croft) rpt 05/12/1957
08/12/1957 L. P. Hartley The Shrimp and the Anemone (Adapted and produced by Archie Campbell) (First broadcast 20/05/1956)
10/12/1957 Samuel Beckett An extract from “Molloy” (Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles tn collaboration with the author) (Spoken by Patrick Magee with music by John Beckett conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie)
14/12/1957 Samuel Beckett From An Abandoned Work (Spoken by Patrick Magee) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 18/12/1957
15/12/1957 L. P. Hartley Eustace and Hilda - PART 1 'The Sixth Heaven' PART 2 ' Eustace and Hilda' (A radio sequel to 'The Shrimp and the Anemone ' adapted as a play In two parts by Archie Campbell) rpt 18/12/1957
17t/12/1957 Laurence Kitchin The Trial of Machiavelli (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 20/12/1957
22/12/1957 William Shakespeare Cymbeline (Directed by Peter Hall) (Radio adaptation and production: Victor Menzies) rpt 27/12/1957
25/12/1957 The Nativity (A mystery play) (Arranged for broadcasting by John Barton and Raymond Raikes) (Taken from the York Tile-thatchers' Play, the Ludus Coventriae Birth of Christ, the Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants of the Shearmen and Taylors and of the Weavers, the Wakefield Prima and Secunda Pastorum , the Chester Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, and the Hegge Salutation and Conception) (Production by Raymond Raikes) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston Stephen Manton (tenor) The Ambrosian Singers The Goldsbrough Orchestra Conducted by Douglas Robinson)
29/12/1957 Peter Gurney The Masque of Falsehood (With music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle) (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 31/12/1957
Alistair Wyper, 10 September 2018 (.....Many thanks - Ed)
