Third Programme, Drama, 1953
Compiled by Alistair Wyper - many thanks.
01/01/1953 Pamela Hansford Johnson Imaginary Conversations – The Duchess at Sunset rpt 24/01/1953
02/01/1953 Stephen Potter A Tour of the Lifemanship Correspondence College (The recorded broadcast of Dec. 24 1952) rpt 26/09/1953
04/01/1953 George Bernard Shaw The Millionairess rpt 09/01/1953
08/01/1953 Jonathan Swift Polite Converation
10/01/1953 Gabriele d'Annunzio The Dead City (Translation by Arthur Symons and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood)
11/01/1953 Jean Anouilh The Waltz of the Toreadors (Translated by Lucienne Hill and the radio adaptation by John Richmond) (Music by John Hotchkis) rpt 16/01/1953 and 16/02/1953
12/01/1953 H. A. L . Craig The Lunacy of Ink (An impression of Thomas Chatterton) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston) rpt 14/01/1953
15/01/1953 Ashley Dukes Mandragola (A comedy freely adapted from Niccolo Machiavelli) (Music composed and directed by John Hotchkis)
18/01/1953 William Shakespeare Timon of Athens rpt 20/01/1953
23/01/1953 Stephen Potter The Lifemanship Correspondence College
25/01/1953 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Radio script and production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 26/01/1953
28/01/1953 Geoffrey Chaucer The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women (Spoken in Middle English pronunciation by Nevill Coghill with an introductory talk) rpt 29/01/1953 and 16/02/1953
31/01/1953 Pierre Corneille Le Cid (Excerpts in French from the Théâtre National Populaire production of ' Le Cid ' directed by Jean Vilar with Gerard Philipe as Don Rodrigue) (Introduction and commentary by Merlin Thomas)
01/02/1953 George Bernard Shaw On the Rocks rpt 03/02/1953
02/02/1953 Daniel George Imaginary Conversations – Variations rpt 04/02/1953
07/02/1953 H. A. L. Craig Thomas Nashe - Supplication to the Divell
08/02/1953 Heinrich von Kleist Too Often to the Well rpt 13/02/1953 and 05/03/1953
09/02/1953 Molière Les Fourberies de Scapin (English translation by George Graveley)
14/02/1953 Honor Tracy Foreign Correspondent
15/02/1953 William Shakespeare Pericles, Prince of Tyre rpt 20/02/1953
17/02/1953 Stephanie Plowman The Royal Exiles
22/02/1953 Jean Cocteau Bacchus (Translation by Mary C . Hoeck) rpt 27/02/1953 and 19/03/1953
26/02/1953 Honor Tracy Imaginary Conversations - De L’Angleterre or ' Miss Austen Provides a Footnote ' rpt 19/11/1953
28/02/1953 Lillian Hellman Montserrat (From the French of Emmanuel Robles)
01/03/1953 George Bernard Shaw Too True To Be Good rpt 03/03/1953
06/03/1953 Tristram Shandy Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman rpt 07/03/1953 and 26/03/1953 and 23/04/1953 and 09/12/1953 and 23/04/1953
08/03/1953 Helena Wood The Labyrinth rpt 10/03/1953 and 30/03/1953
09/03/1953 Molière (performed in French) Les Précieuses Ridicules (Adaptation for radio and production by J. Weltman) rpt 13/03/1953 and 10/12/1953
11/03/1953 Herbert Read Imaginary Conversations – Lord Byron at the Opera rpt 14/03/1953
15/03/1953 William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus rpt 17/03/1953
21/03/1953 Herman Melville Bartleby rpt 10/07/1953
22/03/1953 Jean Anouilh The Traveller Without Luggage (' Le Voyageur sans Bagage ') (Translated by Lewis Galantlere with music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 24/03/1953 and 28/04/1953
28/03/1953 Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus (Translated by E. F. Watling with music by Anthony Bernard) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
29/03/1953 Luigi Pirandello The Rules of the Game (Translated by Noel Cregeen and adapted for broadcasting by Robert Rietty) (Produced by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 31/03/1953 and 21/04/1953
01/04/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 1 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
05/04/1953 William Shakespeare As You Like It rpt 11/04/1953 and 09/05/1953
07/04/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 2 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
12/04/1953 August Strindberg The Dance of Death (In a new English version by Max Faber) (Radio adaptation and production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 14/04/1953 and 12/05/1953 and 06/11/1953
13/04/1953 Christopher Sykes Spes Israelis
15/04/1953 Imaginary Conversations – The Worm in the Rose or ' Ruritania Revisited’ by Marghanita Laski rpt 18/04/1953
16/04/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 3 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
19/04/1953 Jean Cocteau The Knights of the Round Table (Translated by W. H. Auden)
22/04/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 4 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
24/04/1953 Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune
25/04/1953 Henry Reed The Streets of Pompeii
26/04/1953 Philip Vellacott The Hyppolytus of Euripides rpt 01/05/1953 and 30/05/1953
30/04/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 5 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
03/05/1953 J. R. Ackerley The Interned rpt 08/05/1953 and 20/06/1953
04/05/1953 Stephanie Plowman The Royal Exiles
06/05/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 6 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
10/05/1953 William Wycherley The Plain Dealer rpt 15/05/1953 rpt 27/06/1953
11/05/1953 Herbert Read The Inward Eye – Moon’s Farm
14/05/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 7 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
17/05/1953 Henrik Ibsen Emperor and Galilean Parts 1 & 2 rpt 19/05/1953 and 09/06/1953
20/05/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 8 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
21/05/1953 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare 3 A Smack of Hamlet rpt 23/05/1953
22/05/1953 Ivan Turgenev The Sweetest Wine Makes the Sharpest Vinegar
24/05/1953 André Obey Lazarus (Lazare) Translated by Gerard Hopkins rpt 26/05/1953
27/05/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 9 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
02/06/1953 Thomas Love Peacock Gryll Grange rpt 19/07/1953 and 21/07/1953
03/06/1953 Sir Thomas Malory The Quest of 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)
04/06/1953 William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
08/06/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 10 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
11/06/1953 Archibald MacLeish This Music Crept by Me on the Water (Music specially composed by Antony Hopkins) rpt 12/06/1953 and 03/11/1953
13/06/1953 Thierry Maulnier Sunken City (' La Ville au fond de la Mer') Translated from the French by Norman Cameron with music by Anthony Bernard (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 14/07/1953
14/06/1953 Björnstjerne Björnson Beyond Human Might (Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Björkman and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) rpt 16/06/1953 and 09/07/1953
18/06/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 11 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
21/06/1953 Jean Anouilh Colombe - English version by Denis Cannan (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 26/06/1953 rpt 19/08/1953
22/06/1953 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare 4 ' The Trial of Ancient Iago’ rpt 24/06/1953 and 07/12/1953
23/06/1953 Vergil’s Aeneid Book 12 A translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
28/06/1953 André Obey Lazarus (‘Lazare) (Translated by Gerard Hopkins and produced by E. J. King Bull)
29/06/1953 Michael Swan Henry James and H G Wells rpt 03/07/1953 and 20/11/1953
30/06/1953 John Ford “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore” (Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster Incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) rpt 04/07/1953 and 14/08/1953
01/07/1953 Angus Wilson Skeletons and Assegais
05/07/1953 Luigi Pirandello Henry IV (Translated by Edward Storer) rpt 07/07/1953 and 04/09/1953
12/07/1953 Jean Giraudoux No War in Troy (Translated by Jean-Pierre Giraudoux and Betty Askwith and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe)
13/07/1953 Harold Kurtz The Next in Greatness rpt 18/07/1953
15/07/1953 W B Yeats The Cat and the Moon (Music composed by Matyas Seiber and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 17/07/1953 and 10/10/1953
16/07/1953 Evelyn Waugh Helena (Waugh’s historical novel adapted for broadcasting by the author and Christopher Sykes)
20/07/1953 Sophocles Antigone (An English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald with music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
22/07/1953 Michael Swan Henry James in Italy
23/07/1953 Anton Chekhov A Swan Song (Translated by Constance Garnett) rpt 25/07/1953 and 01/10/1953
24/07/1953 Jean Anouilh Antigone (Adapted for radio by Merlin Thomas and Frank Hauser from the translation by Lewis Gelantière)
26/07/1953 T S Eliot The Family Reunion
28/07/1953 Honor Tracy Promenade in Frysthaven rpt 01/08/1953
29/07/1953 Molière Le Medecin Malgré Lui (in an English translation by George Graveley and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) rpt 30/07/1953 and 14/09/1953
02/08/1953 Ivan Turgenev A Month in the Country (Translated by Constance Garnett and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe)
03/08/1953 T. C. Worsley Imaginary Conversations – The Last Flare of the Lamp rpt 07/08/1953
04/08/1953 Henry Reed Return to Naples rpt 06/08/1953
05/08/1953 (author unknown) Arden of Faversham (Adapted for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes)
08/08/1953 William Cooper The Prince Genji (Based on Arthur Waley 's translation of ' The Tale of Genji ' and adapted for broadcasting by William Cooper and Mary Hope Allen)
09/08/1953 Jules Supervielle Robinson (Translated and adapted for radio by Patric Dickinson) rpt 11/08/1953
16/08/1953 Jean Anouilh The Untamed (' La Sauvage ') (Translated from the French by Kitty Black with music composed and arranged by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
20/08/1953 Anton Chekhov On the High Road rpt 21/08/1953 and 17/10/1953
22/08/1953 Richard Brinsley Sheridan St Patrick’s Day or The Scheming Lieutenant
24/08/1953 Francis Watson The Way to the Island rpt 25/08/1953
26/08/1953 Jean-Paul Sartre Hui Clos (Translated bv Marjorie Gabaln and Joan Swinstead)
28/08/1953 Jean-Paul Sartre The Flies (Les Mouches) (Translation by Stuart Gilbert)
30/08/1953 Emyr Humphreys The Last Days of Penry rpt 03/09/1953 and 28/12/1953
31/08/1953 Sir Thomas Malory , Knight The Most Piteous Tale of The Death of Arthur (Adapted for broadcasting and produced bv Douglas Cleverdon from the last part of Morte Darthur edited by Eugene Vinaver from the text of the Winchester MS: with music composed and conducted by P. Racine Fricker)
01/09/1953 Patric Dickinson The Death of Hector (with music composed by James Bernard and conducted by John Hollingsworth) rpt 05/09/1953 rpt 27/11/1953
06/09/1953 Sophocles Oedipus Rex (English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes with music composed by Anthony Bernard)
07/09/1953 Henry Reed A Very Great Man Indeed rpt 09/09/1953
08/09/1953 Anton Chekhov The Anniversary (Translated by Constance Garnett) (Adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 10/09/1953 and 31/10/1953
11/09/1953 Andre Gide Oedipus (Translated from the French by John Russell)
12/09/1953 Pamela Hansford Johnson Swann in Love (Music arranged and composed by Michael Head , and played by him with Winifred Small (violin))
13/09/1953 Christopher Sykes The War Criminal rpt 18/09/1953
15/09/1953 Richard Church The Prodigal rpt 16/09/1953
20/09/1953 Ivy Compton-Burnett Men and Wives (Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author) rpt 25/09/1953
22/09/1953 Andre Obey The Man of Ashes (' L'Homme de Cendres') (Translated from the French by Raf de la Tonne) rpt 23/09/1953
27/09/1953 August Strindberg The Storm (Adapted by Max Faber) rpt 29/09/1953
28/09/1953 Joanna Richardson Piazza Di Spagna or The English Traveller in Rome circa 1820 rpt 30/09/1953
04/10/1953 Jean Anouilh Dinner With The Family (' Le Rendez-vous de Senlia ') (English version by Edward Owen Marsh and radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 06/10/1953 and 07/11/1953
05/10/1953 G. W. Stonier Imaginary Conversations - « Ophelia » rpt 07/10/1953
08/10/1953 Eric Ewens The Great Dean
11/10/1953 Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy rpt 16/10/1953 and 13/11/1953
15/10/1953 David Thomson Summer Pasture
18/10/1953 August Strindberg The Link (Translated by Edwin Bjorkman and N. Erichsen and adapted for radio by Helena Wood) rpt 22/10/1953
19/10/1953 Maurice Cranston A Dialogue on Toleration rpt 21/10/1953
20/10/1953 Sir Thomas Malory The Quest of 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)
23/10/1953 W B Yeats The Shadowy Waters (A musical dramatic poem in one act and a prologue ) rpt 26/10/1953
23/10/1953 André Obey The Man of Ashes (L'Homme de Cendres) (Translated from the French by Raf de la Torre) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)
25/10/1953 William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice rpt 27/10/1953 and 27/12/1953
01/11/1953 Euripides The Electra (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Gilbert Murray with music composed and conducted by Dennis Arundeld)
04/11/1953 Jane Austen Love and Friendship rpt 05/11/1953
08/11/1953 Ivan Turgenev A Poor Gentleman (Translated by Constance Garnett and adapted for radio and produced by Mary Hope Allen rpt 10/11/1953 and 05/12/1953
14/11/1953 Michael Innes Discoveries in Shakespeare 2 'Nemesis at Wycombe Abbey'
15/11/1953 August Strindberg Burnt Out (A new English version by Max Faber and radio adaptation and production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 17/11/1953
18/11/1953 Thomas Dekker The Bachelor's Banquet (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller with music specially composed by Elizabeth Poaton and the orchestra conducted by Patrick Savill)
21/11/1953 Molière L'Avare (Produced by Michel Saint-Denis and performed in French by actors of La Comédie de 1'Est)
22/11/1953 Luigi Pirandello All for the Best ('Tutto per Bene') (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Henry Reed and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) rpt 24/11/1953
23/11/1953 Cecil Roth The King and the Cabbalist rpt 25/11/1953
29/11/1953 L. H. Myers The Clio (A radio script by Donald McWhinnie from the novel) rpt 01/12/1953
04/12/1953 C. P. Snow The Young and Ancient Men (First broadcast 06/11/1951)
06/12/1953 Paul Claudel The Hostage ((' L'Otage ') (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Edward Sackville-West) rpt 08/12/1953
06/12/1953 Ivan Roe The Summer by the Sea rpt 11/12/1953
06/12/1953 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Part 1 (A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern English by J. R. R. Tolkien) rpt 10/12/1953
09/12/1953 Laurence Sterne Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman (Arranged by Peter Duval Smith from ' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Gentleman ')
12/12/1953 Richard Church The Prodigal (A play in verse adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh)
13/12/1953 August Strindberg To Damascus Part I (A new translation and radio adaptation by Peter Watts)
13/12/1953 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Part 2 (A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern English by J. R. R. Tolkien) rpt 17/12/1953
15/12/1953 August Strindberg To Damascus Part II (A new translation and radio adaptation by Peter Watts)
18/12/1953 Eric Ewens 'London, June 23 1838' (A radio survey of Queen Victoria's Coronation Day)
19/12/1953 August Strindberg To Damascus Part III (A new translation and radio adaptation by Peter Watts)
20/12/1953 Charles Bertin Christoper Columbus (Translated by Henry Van Hoof Edited by Frederick Bradnum with music by Jacques Stehman) rpt 22/12/1953
20/12/1953 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Part 3 (A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern English by J. R. R. Tolkien) rpt 21/12/1953
21/12/1953 John Lehmann Household Words rpt 23/12/1953
24/12/1953 W. H. Auden For the Time Being (A Christmas Oratorio) (Music composed by Matyas Seiber)
25/12/1953 Edward Lear The Jumblies and the Dong (Music by Max Saunders with an orchestra and chorus conducted by the composer) rpt 30/12/1953
25/12/1953 Herman Melville The Apple-tree Table (Adapted for broadcasting by Preston Lockwood) rpt 26/12/1953
29/12/1953 William Shakespeare King Lear
30/12/1953 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Part 4 (A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern English by J. R. R. Tolkien) rpt 31/12/1953
31/12/1953 Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
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Compiled by Alistair Wyper - many thanks..... ND / Jan 2016
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