Third Programme:
Drama, 1962

The BBC Third Programme Plays 1962

02/01/1962 Jean Morris Sonata Form of Words
(Music By: Elizabeth Poston) (Directed By: Douglas Robinson) (Produced By: Michael Bakewell) rpt 24/01/1962

03/01/1962 Maurice Cranston A Dialogue on Revolution
(Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (This dialogue is assumed to take place in 1790, when Edmund Burke was writing his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke defends his views against two left-wing friends, Thomas Paine , who had made his name in America as the author of the revolutionary tract, Common Sense, and Mary Wollstonecraft , who later married William Godwin) rpt 23/01/1962

05/01/1962 Brendan Behan From the Fifties: The Hostage
(A melodrama of Dublin life arranged for broadcasting by Dominic Behan and H. A. L. Craig) (Directed by Kathleen O'Connor with production by H. B. Fortuin) rpt 01/07/1962 (First broadcast 13/12/1961)

06/01/1962 Louis MacNeice Let’s Go Yellow
(Production by Louis MacNeice) (Malcolm Hayes in the story of a reporter in a world of doublethink) (First broadcast 19/12/1961)

07/01/1962 Bill Naughton Alfie Elkins and His Little Life
(Production By: Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 03/02/1962 and 11/09/1962

09/01/1962 Jules Renard Poile de Carotte
(Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (A version by Rayner Heppenstall translated in part from the prose sketches of 1894 and in part from the one-act play of 1900) (First broadcast 27/09/1961)

10/01/1962 George Bernard Shaw Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
(Produced By: Cedric Messina) rpt (First broadcast 17/12/1961)

12/01/1962 Bertolt Brecht From the Fifties: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(Produced, edited and arranged for broadcasting by H. B. Fortuin) rpt 28/01/1962

13/01/1962 Jacques Perret and Jean Forest
(The story of a contemporary John Lackland) (Translated by Dorothy Baker) (Produced by David Thomson) (First broadcast 25/12/1961) rpt 24/51/1962

14/01/1962 Jean Anouilh From the Fifties: The Lark
(Translated by Christopher Fry and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) (Production By: Val Gielgud) (First broadcast 29/12/1961)

16/01/1962 Terence Tiller the Death of Adam
(Translated into English verse from the medieval Cornish and adapted for broadcasting with additional passages in verse by Terence Tiller) (A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949) (Production by Terence Tiller) (First broadcast 24/12/1961)

17/01/1962 Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm
(Translated By: Ann Jellicoe) (Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) (The action takes place at Rosmersholm, an old manor house near a small town on a fjord in Western Norway, in 1886) rpt 24/01/1962 and 04/02/1962 and 27/08/1962

25/01/1962 Eda Lord Childsplay
(A Fragment of Autobiography from her book published last spring and recalling a childhood spent in the American west and south-west fifty years ago) (Production By: Christopher Holme) rpt 10/02/1962 and 26/08/1962

26/01/1962 Eugene Ionesco From the Fifties:
The Lesson and The Bald Prima Donna (Translated by Donald Watson) (Both plays produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 11/02/1962 and 08/08/1962 and 04/09/1962

27/01/1962 Rhys Adrian The Bridge
(Produced By: Michael Bakewell) (First broadcast 19/07/1961)

30/01/1962 The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus 1: Agamemnon
(A new translation By: C. A. Trypanis) (Produced By: Val Gielgud) rpt 18/02/1962

31/01/1962 The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus 2: The Choephoroe
(A new translation By: C. A. Trypanis) (Produced By: Val Gielgud) rpt 20/02/1962

01/02/1962 Ted Hughes The Wound
(Music By: Alexander Goehr) (Production By: Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 17/02/1962 and 14/07/1962

02/02/1962 The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus 3: The Eumenides
(A new translation By: C. A. Trypanis) (Produced By: Val Gielgud) (Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) rpt 22/02/1962

06/02/1962 Kingsley Amis Something Strange
(Production By: Christopher Holme) rpt 24/02/1962

07/02/1962 From the Fifties: Jean Cocteau Orpheus
(Translated and adapted for radio and produced by Michael Bakewell) rpt 27/02 /1962 and 21/09 /1962

09/02/1962 William Shakespeare Richard II
(Production By: John Richmond) (with John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson) First broadcast 07/06/1961

13/02/1962 Fyodor Dostoevsky A Gentle Creature
(A Fantastic Story translated by David Magarshack) (Edited for radio by David Tutaev) Produced By: H. B. Fortuin) First broadcast 09/08/1961

14/02/1962 Hugo von Hofmannsthal The Tower
(Translated By: Michael Hamburger) (Produced By: H. B. Fortuin and William Glen-Doepel) rpt 06/03/1962

16/02/1962 Ivy Compton-Burnett The Mighty and Their Fall
(Produced and Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) rpt 04/03/1962 and 31/08/1962

21/02/1962 Jessie Kesson Beyond Somewhere Beyond
(Production By: David Thomson) (A sequel to The Childhood) rpt 13/03/1962 and 13/08/1962

23/02/1962 Ingmar Bergman A Painting on Wood
(Translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin) (Production By: John Gibson) rpt 11/03/1962 and 20/11/1962

28/02/1962 H. W. Chitepo The Tale Without a Head - Soko Risina Musoro
Translated from the Shona and introduced by Hazel Carter) (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 17/03/1962

01/03/1962 Daryl Hine A Mutual Flame
(Production by Douglas Cleverdon) First broadcast 11/07/1961

02/03/1962 Edward Sackville-West The Rescue
(Production by Val Gielgud) (Music composed by Benjamin Britten rpt 18/03/1962

03/03/1962 Georg Büchner Woyzeck
(Newly translated by John Holmstrom) (Music by Roberto Gerhard) (Produced by H. B. Fortuin) First broadcast 21/04/1961

09/03/1962 From the Fifties: John Arden
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (Adapted for broadcasting by H. B. Fortuin) (Production By:John Gibson) rpt 25/03/1962 and 02/12/1962

14/03/1962 Ronald Firbank The Princess Zoubaroff
(Produced By: Archie Campbellà rpt 06/04/1962

16/03/1962 Goethe’s Faust
(Translated by Louis MacNeice assisted by E. L. Stahl) (Produced by Louis MacNeice) rpt 17/06/1962

20/03/1962 From the Fifties: Harold Pinter The Caretaker
(Production By: Michael Bakewell) rpt 13/04/1962

28/03/1962 John Marston The Malcontent
(Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes) (Music composed by Guy Halahan) rpt 15/04/196

30/03/1962Henry Reed Emily Butter - An Occasion Recalled
(The occasion is the first performance of Hilda Tablet's opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) (The production suddenly realised by Douclas Cleverdon) Sixth broadcast First broadcast 14/11/1954

31/03/1962 Bertold Brecht Refugee Conversations 1:
About Passports, About the Parity of Beer and Cigars, About the Love of Order (The first of four programmes of extracts from Bertolt Brecht's posthumous collection of dialogues between two German refugees) (Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) rpt 05/12/1962

03/04/1962 Georges Schehade The Voyage
(Translated by Robert Baldick) (Music composed by Hans Heimle) (Produced by Charles Lefeuax) rpt 22/04/196 2 and rpt 23/12/1962

03/04/1962 Louis MacNeice the Mad Islands
(Production By: Louis MacNeice) (Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) rpt 24/04/1962

08/04/1962 The Passion of Our Lord
(The Medieval Cornish play freely translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller) First broadcast 17/04/1957

08/04/1962 Bertold Brecht Refugee Conversations 2:
About base materialism; about freethinkers; Ziffel writes his memoirs; about the growing number of important people; about monsters; moderate demands of schools (The second of four programmes of extracts from Bertolt Brecht's posthumous collection of dialogues between two German refugees) (Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) rpt 13/12/1962

11/04/1962 Frolic Wind
(The novel by Richard Oke and the play by Richard Pryce adapted by Jonquil Antony) (Produced By: Archie Campbell) rpt 29/04/1962 and rpt 15/03/1963

14/04/1962 Bertold Brecht Refugee Conversations 3:
About France or Patriotism; about Denmark or the Sense of Humour; on Hegel's Dialectic; about Sweden or the Love of One's Neighbour (The third of four programmes of extracts from Bertolt Brecht's posthumous collection of dialogues between two German refugees) (Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) rpt 20/12/1962

17/04/1962 Italo Svevo A Husband
(Translated By: G. H. McWilliam) (Production By: Martin Esslin) rpt 06/05/1962

20/04/1962 Alexander McKee Select Committee
(A programme based on the Report of the Select Committee on Public Institutions, March 1860. The object of the Committee's inquiry was to find whether Parliament could provide more facilities for promoting the healthful recreation and improvement of the people) ( (Produced By: Dorothy Baker) rpt 10/05/1962

21/04/1962 The Harrowing of Hell
(The Medieval Cornish Play translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller)

25/04/1962 The Resurrection
(The Medieval Cornish Play: a new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949)

26/04/1962 Bertold Brecht Refugee Conversations 4:
About Master Races: About World Domination: Ziffel declares his disdain for all virtue (The last of four programmes of extracts from Bertolt Brecht's posthumous collection of dialogues between two German refugees) (Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd) rpt 28/12/1962

27/04/1962 Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
(Produced By: R. D. Smith) rpt 13/05/1962 and rpt 04/11/1962

01/05/1962 Nathaniel Lee Restoration Drama: Father of his Country
A Tragedy (First acted at the Duke's Theatre. Dorset Garden, on December 5, 1680) (Written by Nathaniel Lee (c. 1646-1692) (Production By: Raymond Raikes)

04/05/1962 Charles Wood Prisoner and Escort
(Producer: Patrick Dromgoole) (BBC recording: from the West) rpt 19/05/1962

08/05/1962 Edward Albee The American Dream
(Produced and adapted for broadcasting By: John Gibson) rpt 26/05/1962

09/05/1962 Galilee and Emmaus
(The Medieval Cornish Play translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller) (A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949)

15/05/1962 John Hersey The Child Buyer
(Adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker) (Produced by Laurence Gilliam) First broadcast 04/07/1961

16/05/1962 Robert Baldick Dinner at Magny’s
(A conversation piece based on the Goncourt Journals) (Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 02/06/1962 and 06/10/1962

17/05/1962 Colin Finbow As Soon As Thursday
(Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) First broadcast 24/10/1961

18/05/1962 The Medea of Euripides
(Arranged and produced by Raymond Raikes) rpt 03/06/1962 and 30/10/1962

22/05/1962 Samuel Beckett Endgame
(Production By: Michael Bakewell) (Endgame was given its first performance in French at the Royal Court Theatre in April 1957 and a recording of this production was broadcast a month later. Tonight's performance will be its first broadcast in English) rpt 15/06/1962

23/05/1962 The Death of Pilate
(The Medieval Cornish Play translated into English verse and produced and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller) (A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1958)

27/05/1962 Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
(An Entertainment for Radio text from the novel with verses by Muriel Spark and music by Tristram Cary Adaptation and production by Christopher Holme) (The original programme first broadcast on October 7, 1960, now revised and newly produced) rpt 22/06/1962

30/05/1962 Nigel Dennis
August for the People
(Adapted for radio by Nigel Dennis and Robin Midgley) (Produced By: Robin Midgley) rpt 19/06/1962 and 16/09/1962

31/05/1962 The Ascension
(The Medieval Cornish Play translated into English verse produced and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller) (A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949)

01/06/1962 Henrik Ibsen The Lady from the Sea
(Translated by Ann Jellicoe, Margaret Leighton and John Clements) (Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) First broadcast 01/09/1961

03/06/1962 Euripides The Medea
(Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes from Philip VelIacott 's new translation) (Music by Christopher Whelen) rpt 22/10/1962

05/06/1962  T. H. White The Goshawk
(Adapted and produced by Nesta Pain) (First broadcast 14/01/1952)

06/06/1962 Henry Reed A Hedge, Backwards
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) First broadcast 25/02/1956

08/06/1962 Max Frisch Andorra
(Translated by Michael Bullock) (Produced by Martin Esslin) rpt 24/06/1962

09/06/1962 Vernon Scannell A Man’s Game
(Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 05/07/1962 and 27/10/1962

12/06/1962 Harold Pinter The Collection
(Produced By: Cedric Messina) rpt 30/06/1962 and 09/11/1962

16/06/1962 Günter Grass The Salt Lake Line
(Music By: Humphrey Searle) (Production By: Christopher Holme) ( A radio version of the stage play Noch Zehn Minuten bis Buffalo adapted from the German by Christopher Holme) rpt 12/07/1962

21/06/1962 Arthur Adamov Professeur Taranne
(Translated by Peter Meyer) (First performed in French in 1953, a short, claustrophobic study of the extent to which we depend on others for the sense of our own identity) (Adapted and produced by William Glen-Doepel) rpt 10/07/1962

23/06/1962 Naoya Uchimura Marathon
(Translated by Geoffrey Bownas) (Music by Wataru Saito) (Production by Anthony Thwaite) rpt 18/03/1961 and 19/08/1961 First broadcast 01/03/1961

26/06/1962 Richard Murphy The Cleggan Disaster
(A Narrative Poem with an Epilogue) (Read by Denys Hawthorne and Richard Murphy) rpt 19/11/1962

28/06/1962 Francois Villon Le Testament
(A melodrama by Ezra Pound based upon the poetry of Francois Villon) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (Music arranged by Murray Schafer, Musical adviser Alexander Goehr, Music conducted by John Carewe) rpt 31/07/1962

29/06/1962 John Ford ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
(Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 17/07/1962

08/1962 Muriel Spark Memento Mori
(A radio play from the novel) (Script and production by Christopher Holme) rpt 03/09/1961 First broadcast 14/08/1961

11/07/1962 Philip Holland No Summer at Sea
(Produced By: Alan Burgess) rpt 28/07/1962

13/07/1962 Carl Goldoni Mine Hostess
(La Locandiera) (Translated By: Clifford Bax) (Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) rpt 29/07/1962

15/07/1962 Giles Cooper Pig in the Middle
(Produced by H. B. Fortuin) First broadcast 04/10/1960

16/07/1962 Philip O'Connor Anathema
(Production By: Douglas Cleverdon)

22/07/1962 Jean Anouilh Animal Grab
( La Foire d'Empoigne) (Translated by Lucienne Hill) (The first production in English of Anouith's most recent ironic comedy on Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and the Hundred Days) (Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) (Producer: Val Gielgud)

24/07/1962 Bernard Kops Home Sweet Honeycomb
(Produced By: Michael Bakewell) rpt 15/08/1962

25/07/1962 George Farquhar The Beaux Strategem
(Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) First broadcast 29/09/1961

27/07/1962 Christine Brooke-Rose A Seance at the Seminar
(Produced By: Nesta Pain) rpt 16/08/1962

01/08/1962 Françoise Sagan Castle in Sweden
(Translated By: Lucienne Hui) (Adapted By: Cynthia Pughe) (Produced By: Val Gielgud) rpt 20/08/1962

02/08/1962 Zbigniev Herbert The Other Room
(Produced By: Christopher Holme) (A young couple are waiting for an old woman to die so that they can have her room. This brief and bitter satire on the behaviour of human beings ' under pressure ' is by one of the leading poets of modern Poland) rpt 21/08/1962

03/08/1962 Jessie Kesson The Childhood
(Produced by David Thomson in the BBC's Scottish studios) (A new production of the programme first heard in 1952) First broadcast 17/01/1961

09/08/1962 August Strindberg The Dance of Death
(Adapted By: Max Faber) (Production By: H. B. Fortuin) (The broadcast of January 30, 1961, in the Home Service)

14/08/1962 Henry de Montherlant Queen in Death
(Translated By: Robert Baldick) (Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) First broadcast 22/09/1961

17/08/1962 Alan Sharp The Long-Distance Piano Player
(Production by Christopher Holme) (Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) (Music composed and played By: Richard Rodney Bennett) rpt 01/09/1962

18/08/1962 Giles Cooper Before the Monday
(Produced By: Michael Bakewell) First broadcast 04/06/1959

19/08/1962 Sylvia Plath Three Women
(Produced By: Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 13/09/1962

23/08/1962 Ray Jenkins Strange Fruit
(Production By: John Gibson) rpt 08/09/1962

28/08/1962 Leslie Daiken Three Outcasts
(Produced By: David Thomson) rpt 15/09/1962

29/08/1962 Barry Bermange Nathan and Tabileth
(Produced By: Robin Midgley) (The broadcast of June 10th in the Home Service)

02/09/1962 Arthur Schnitzler Lieutenant Gustl
(A dramatic monologue translated by Sheila Stern) (Produced By: Martin Esslin) rpt 22/09/1962

05/09/1962 Bulstrode Whitelocke And What the Swede Intends
(Produced By: Terence Tiller) rpt 27/09/1962

06/09/1962 Dino Buzzati A Hospital Case
(Translated and adapted by Henry Reed) (Produced By: Martin Esslin) First broadcast 22/11/1961

10/09/1962 Hugo von Hofmannsthal M – The Tower
(Translated by Michael Hamburger) (Adapted for broadcasting By: William Glen-Doepel) (Produced By: H. B. Fortuin and William Glen-Doepel)

12/09/1962 Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains
(Adapted and produced by Nesta Pain) rpt 29/09/1962

14/09/1962 Thomas Middleton Women Beware Women
(Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes) rpt 30/09/1962

18/09/1962 Henry Reed The Primal Scene, As It Were
(Production By: Douglas Cleverdon) First broadcast 11/03/1958

19/09/1962 Ernst Schnabel The Silent Village
(Production By: Christopher Holme) (A reminder of Lidice twenty years after its destruction by the Nazis) rpt 09/10/1962

20/09/1962 August Strindberg The Pelican
(Translated By: Paul Britten Austin) (Produced By: William Glen-Doepel) rpt 10/10/1962

23/09/1962 John Dryden All for Love
(Produced By: R. D. Smith)

25/09/1962 Giles Cooper The Return of General Forefinger
(A Comedy of Motive) (Produced By: Michael Bakewell) First broadcast 25/07/1961

26/09/1962 Plato The Symposium
(Plato's dialogue arranged by Rayner Heppenstall) (Translation By: Francis Birrell and Shane Leslie) (Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall and Robert Eddison ) rpt 13/10/1962

28/09/1962 Henrik Ibsen Pillars of Society
(Translated and adapted for radio by Max Faber) (Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) rpt 14/10/1962

02/10/1962 Colin Finbow Tonight is Friday
(Produced By: Charles Lefeaux) rpt 20/10/1962

05/10/1962 From the Fifties: Jean-Paul Sartre Nekrassov
(Translated By: Sylvia Leeson and George Leeson) (Produced By: R. D. Smith) (Adapted for radio by Donald McWhinnie) First broadcast 01/11/1961

12/10/1962 Colley Cibber and others The Double Gallant
(Produced By: Raymond Raikes) rpt 28/10/1962

17/10/1962 Norman Smithson A Pain, About Six Inches Above Your Head
(Producer: Alfred Bradley) First broadcast 28/03/1961 on BBC Home Service North

19/10/1962 Bill Naughton Jacky Crowe: A Small-time Gambler
(Producer: Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 03/11/1962

22/10/1962 Giles Cooper The Disagreeable Oyster
(Produced bv Donald McWhinnie) First broadcast 15/08/1957

23/10/1962 Plato Phaedrus
(Plato's Dialogue) (Translation By: Kenneth Fawdry) (Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 19/11/1962

26/10/1962 Robert Musil Vincent and the Girl Friend of Important Men
(Translated By: Michael Bullock) (Produced By: Martin Esslin) rpt 18/11/1962

29/10/1962 John O'Donovan The Fiddler and the Dean
(Production By: Christopher Sykes) rpt 22/11/1962

02/11/1962 Charles Wood Cowheel Jelly
(Produced By: Patrick Dromgoole) rpt 08/12/1962

06/11/1962 Gerhardt Hauptmann The Weavers
(Produced By: Alfred Bradley) (Adapted by Henry Livings) (Translation By: Mary Morrison) rpt 30/11/1962

07/11/1962 Kathleen Sully A Man Talking to Seagulls
(Adapted for radio and produced by Nesta Pain) rpt 24/11/1962

10/11/1962 Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell How Now to Listen
(Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 31/12/1962

11/11/1962 Kay Cicellis A Taste of Madeleine
(Produced By: David Thomson) rpt 06/12/1962

13/11/1962 Samuel Beckett Words and Music
(Produced By: Michael Bakewell) (Music By: John Beckett) rpt 07/12/1962

14/11/1962 Barry Bermange No Quarter
(Produced By: John Gibson) rpt 01/12/1962

23/11/1962 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The Maid’s Tragedy
(Adapted for radio and produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 09/12/1962

25/11/1962 Giles Cooper Mathry Beacon
(Produced By: Donald McWhinnie) First broadcast 18/07/1956

26/11/1962 Plato Apology
(Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall) (Translation By: Hugh Tredennick) rpt 16/12/1962

27/11/1962 Caryl Churchill The Ants
(Produced By: Michael Bakewell) (Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) rpt 15/12/1962

28/11/1962 Patric Dickinson One Hour
(Produced By: Joe Burroughs) rpt 18/12/1962

04/12/1962 Albert Camus Cross Purpose
(Le Malentendu) (Translated by Stuart Gilbert) (Produced By: Richard Imison)

11/12/1962 Arnold Hinchliffe In the Flats
(Produced By: R. D. Smith)

20/12/1962 August Strindberg Pariah
(Adapted for broadcasting By: Max Faber) Produced By: John Gibson)

21/12/1962 Giles Cooper Unman, Wittering, and Zigo
(Produced By: Donald McWhinnie) First broadcast 16/12/1958

22/12/1962 Plato Crito
(Translation By: Hugh Tredennick) (Produced By: Rayner Heppenstall)

24/12/1962 C. Northcote Parkinson Parkinson’s Precepts
(Based on material from the book In-Laws and Outlaw) (Produced By: Nesta Pain) (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins)

27/12/1962 William Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost
(Produced by Raymond Raikes)

Alistair Wyper, Oct 2022 (.....Many thanks - Ed)

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