Third Programme:
Drama, 1956
Compiled by Alistair Wyper
The BBC Third Programme Plays 1956
01/01/1956 Romain Rolland, Wolves (' Les Loups') (Translated by John Holmstrom) (Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh and produced by R. D. Smith) rpt 07/01/1956 and 28/04/1956
02/01/1956 Eric Ewens, The Great Cham (Produced by Christopher Sykes) (First broadcast 15/08/1956 rpt 17/08/1956)
03/01/1956 Anthony Powell, Venusberg (Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes) rpt 05/01/1956 and 25/05/1956
07/01/1956 August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata (A new English translation for broadcasting by Frederick Bradnum) (Music composed by Tristram Cary) (First broadcast 23/10/1956 rpt 28/10/1956)
08/01/1956 Kaj Munk, The Greatest of These ('Kaerlighed') (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Marianne Helweg) (Produced by Norman Wright) rpt 13/01/1956 and 07/04/1956
08/01/1956 Harold Acton, Prince Isidore (Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes (Music composed and arranged by Norman Forber Kay played by a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead, Conductor, John Hopkins)
10/01/1956 Henry James, The Golden Bowl: Part 1 The Prince (Dramatised by Mary Hope Allen)
10/01/1956 Henry James, The Golden Bowl: Part 2 The Princess (Dramatised by Mary Hope Allen)
11/01/1956 Boccaccio, The Loyal Wife of Genoa (Philomena's Tale on the Second Day) (First of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620 (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) (First broadcast bertween 20/01/1956 and 22/06/1956)
11/01/1956 Virgil, The Fall of Troy (A version for radio by Rene Hague based on Book 2 of the Aeneid) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 14/01/1956
12/01/1956 Pamela Hansford Johnson, Saint-Loup (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) ((The recorded broadcast of September 25 1956)
15/01/1956 Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (Adapted and produced by R. D. Smith) (Music composed by Edward Williams and conducted by Marcus Dods) rpt 17/01/1956 and 09/06/1956
18/01/1956 Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary (Adapted by Marianne Helweg) (Produced by Eileen Capel) rpt 19/01/1956 and 25/04/1956
20/01/1956 Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters (Adapted by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author) (Production by Christopher Sykes) (The recorded broadcast of June 26 1956)
21/01/1956 Denis Marion, The Letter of the Law (' Le Juge de Malte') (Translated and produced by Peter Watts) (The recorded broadcast of November 20 1956)
22/01/1956 Padraic Fallon, Diarmuid and Grainne (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 26/01/1956
22/01/1956 V. S. Pritchett, Maisie (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
23/01/1956 Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose, The Birth of an Opera - 3 'Le Nozze di Figaro ' (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leader, Arthur Leavins, Conducted by John Pritchard) (Production By: Christopher Sykes) rpt 25/01/1956
28/01/1956 Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary (Translated by Louise Morgan Sill) (Music composed and conducted by Norman Demuth and sung by Anne Dowdall. Sebastian Forbes and members of the Ambrosian Singers) (Production By: Michael Bakewell)
29/01/1956 Alain-Fournier, The Milk of Paradise (A radio script by Barbara Bray based on a new translation of Alain-Fournier's novel Le Grand Meaulne) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston , conducted by Douglas Robinson with pupils at M. Seurel's school and other children) (Production By: Donald McWhinnie) rpt 03/02/1956 and 29/05/1956
31/01/1956 Wolfgang Weyrauch, The Japanese Fishermen (Translated from the German by Harold Kurtz and Terence Tiller) (Special effects devised by Tristram Cary) (Produced by Terence Tiller) (First broadcast 5 and 6 October 1956)
01/02/1956 Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan: 77th Lord of Gormenghast (Adapted as a play for broadcasting by the author) (Incidental music composed and conducted by Arthur Oldham) (Produced by Francis Dillon) ) rpt 04/02/1956 )
02/02/1956 Gillian Richards, The Dreamers (Music composed by James Bernard conducted by John Hollingsworth) (Produced by John Gibson)
05/02/1956 Louis MacNeice, Also Among the Prophets (Music composed by Matyas Seiber sung by the Dorian Singers) (Production by Louis MacNeice) rpt 08/02/1956) and 03/09/1956)
06/02/1956 1956 Boccaccio, Juliette of Narbonne (Neiphila's Tale on the Third Day) (Second of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
07/02/1956 Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage (Translated by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd and adapted for radio by A. L. Lloyd with music by Paul Dessau conducted by Edward Clark) (Produced by R. D. Smith)
09/02/1956 Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 1 (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 03/07/1956
10/02/1956 Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2 (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 04/07/1956
11/02/1956 David Lytton, In a Blind Wilderness (Production by Charles Parker)
12/02/1956 Henrik Ibsen, Little Eyolf (A new translation from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 17/02/1956 and 23/06/1956
13/02/1956 Boccaccio, Tancred, Prince of Salerno (Fiametta's Tale on the Fourth Day) (Third of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
14/02/1956 Shinsho Hanayama, The Way of Deliverance (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 15/02/1956 and 14/07/1956
16/02/1956 James Merrill , The Bait (A play in verse)
19/02/1956 Jack B. Yeats, In Sand (Irish Pipes played by Seamus Ennis) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 24/02/1956 rpt 07/05/1956
20/02/1956 Boccaccio, Isabella’s Three Brethren Philomena's Tale on the Fourth Day) (Fourth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
21/02/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Prologue and Book 1 (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 25/02/1956
21/02/1956 Philippe Auguste Matthias, Count Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Axel Part 1: The World of Religion (Newly translated by James Laver and Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 15/06/1956 and 30/07/1956 and 30/07/1956
22/02/1956 Philippe Auguste Matthias, Count Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Axel Part 2: The World of Tragedy and Part 3: The World of the Occult (Newly translated by James Laver and Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 15/06/1956 and 30/07/1956
23/02/1956 André Gide, The Thirteenth Tree (Translated by George D. Painter and Produced by Michael Bakewell)
23/02/1956 Philippe Auguste Matthias, Count Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Axel Part 4: The World of Passion (Newly translated by James Laver and Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 15/06/1956 and 30/07/1956
25/02/1956 Henry Reed, A Very Great Man Indeed (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Originally broadcast on Monday 7 November, 1953)
26/02/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Book 2: Envy (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 27/02/1956
26/02/1956 Ernest Reynolds, Candlemas Night (The recorded broadcast of December 26 1956)
27/02/1956 Boccaccio, The Dream of Andreana (Pamphilus's Tale on the Fourth Day) Fifth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
28/02/1956 Thomas Hardy, The Famous Tragedy of The Queen of Cornwall rpt 03/03/1956 and 21/04/1956
29/02/1956 Henry Reed, A Hedge, Backwards (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (The fragments of Hilda Tablet's musique “concrète renforcée” and the two settings of “There Once Was a Garden” realised by Donald Swann) rpt 02/03/1956
04/03/1956 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (Adapted and produced by Donald McWhinnie) (First broadcast 16/05/1954)
04/03/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Book 3: Anger; Book 4 : Sloth (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 09/03/1956
05/03/1956 Boccaccio, The Vision in the Woods (Pampinea's Tale on the Fifth Day) (Sixth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
05/03/1956 Lope de Hueda, Eufemia (Production by Frederick Bradnum) 0
8/03/1956 Ivy Compion -Burnett, Men and Wives (Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author) (Production by Christopher Sykes) (First broadcast 20/09/1953)
11/03/1956 André Malraux, The Lot of Man (Dramatised by by Thierry Maulnier from the novel" La Condition Humaine) ) rpt 16/03/1956 and rpt 05/05/1956
11/03/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Book 5: Avarice (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 16/03/1956
11/03/1956 Gerard McLarnon, Abandon All Remorse (Produced by Francis Dillon)
16/03/1956 I. A. Richards, A Leak in the Universe (Incidental music composed by Roberto Gerhard) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (First broadcast 01/09/1956)
16/03/1956 Boccaccio, Frederigo’s Falcon (Fiammetta's Tale on the Fifth Day) (Seventh of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
17/03/1956 Henry James, The Pension Beaurepas (Adapted and produced by Mary Hope Allen) (First broadcast 31/10/1954)
18/03/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Fifth of six parts: Books 6 and 7 and parts of Book 8: Gluttony and Unlawful Love (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 19/03/1956
20/03/1956 Maurice Cranston, Rousseau in England (With music composed by Roussea i arranged and conducted by Patrick Savill) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon)
21/03/1956 Anne Ridler, The Trial of Thomas Cranmer (Adapted for broadcasting by Moliie Greenhalgh in collaboration with the author) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark) (Produced by R.D Smith) rpt 23/03/1956
23/03/1956 Boccaccio, The Crane’s Leg (Neiphila's Taleon the Sixth Day) (Eighth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
25/03/1956 John Gower, Confessio Amantis Book 8: Absolution and Farewell (Shortened version in modern English Arranged and produced in six parts by Terence Tiller) rpt 26/03/1956
25/03/1956 Luigi Pirandello, Honesty is the Best Policy (Translated by Frederick May) (Adapted by Helena Wood) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 31/03/1956 and 18/05/1956
25/03/1956 Boccaccio, 'The Phoenix Feather (Dioneus's Tale on the Sixth Day) (From Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) (The recorded broadcast of May 9 1956) 29/03/1956 Philip Vellacott An Island in Time (Music by Anthony Bernard) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes Hermes) (The recorded broadcast of September 11 1956)
01/04/1956 William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Adapted by Peter Watts) (Music arranged by Seumas MacNeill, played by Seumas MacNeill and Donald Maclean with fanfares composed by John Holebkis) (Produced by Peter Walls) rpt 03/04/1956 and 02/09/1956
04/04/1956 Gertrude Hutchinson, The Fabians and I (Produced by Terence Tille) (The recorded broadcast of November 17 1956)
05/04/1956 Boccaccio, The Enchanted Pear Tree (Pamphilus's Tale on the Seventh Day) (Tenth of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall) (The recorded broadcast of May 24, 1956)
06/04/1956 Pamela Hansford Johnson, A Window at Montjouvain (A Proust reconstruction) rpt 17/06/1956
08/04/1956 Padraic Fallon, A Man in a Window (Produced by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 10/04/1956 and 13/09/1956
09/04/1956 George Barker, The Gardens of Altering Eros (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 14/04/1956
12/04/1956 Boccaccio, The Cloak and the Mortar (Pamphilus's Tale on the Eighth Day) Eleventh of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall)
13/04/1956 Anne Ridler, The Trial of Thomas Cranmer (Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh in collaboration with the author) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark) (Produced by R. D. Smith)
15/04/1956 Michel de Ghelderode, Madamoiselle Jaire (Translated and adapted for radio by Joanna Richardson and Patrie Dickinson) (Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen) (Production by John Gibson) rpt 19/04/1956 and 12/06/1956
15/04/1956 William Golding, Envoy Extraordinary (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 18/04/1956
17/04/1956 Dylan Thomas, Under Milkwood (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (The songs set by Daniel Jones) (Children's songs and singing game recorded by children of Laugharne School)
20/04/1956 Boccaccio, Patient Grizelda (Dioneus's Tale on the Tenth Day) Last of twelve stories from Boccaccio's Decameron in the anonymous translation of 1620) (Arranged for broadcasting by Sasha Moorsom and Rayner Heppenstall)
22/04/1956 Walter de la Mare, The Return (Radio script by Barbara Bray) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson) (Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 27/04/1956 and 02/08/1956
23/04/1956 Angus Wilson, Left in the Middle (Produced by Louis MacNeice) rpt 26/04/1956 and 30/10/1956
29/04/1956 The Shakespeare Apocrypha, The Reign of King Edward III (Adapted for radio by Peter Watts) (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 04/05/1956
30/04/1956 David Karp, One (Adapted and produced by Nesta Pain) rpt 01/05/1956
02/05/1956 A. N. L. Munby, The Forger and the Baronet (Written and narrated by the author) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
06/05/1956 René Hague, The Death of Vivien (Adapted from the Chanson de Guillaume) (Music by Peter Racine Fricker) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (Sinfonia of London with male chorus conducted by the composer Repetiteur, Bryan Balkwill) rpt 27/10/1956
06/05/1956 Lope de Vega, Punishment Without Vengeance (Translated by W. S. Merwin) (Production by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 12/05/1956 and 11/08/1956
07/05/1956 Peter Green, Portrait of Ovid (Narrated by the author) rpt 10/05/1956
08/05/1956 T. O. Beacheroft, Who Shall Be Saved (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 11/05/1956 and 10/10/1956
10/05/1956 R. C. Scriven, A Single Taper (Produced by Rex Tucker) rpt 16/05/1956
13/05/1956 Michael Innes, The Descent from Parnassus (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 17/05/1956 and 29/12/1956
15/05/1956 Kaj Munk, The Word (Translated by R. P. Keigwin and freely adapted for radio by John D. Stewart) rpt 19/05/1956 and 16/08/1956
20/05/1956 L. P. Hartley, The Shrimp and the Anemone (Adapted and produced by Archie Campbell) (Pianist, Cicely Hoye) rpt 26/05/1956 and 20/06/1956
21/05/1956 Patric Dickinson, The Dark Angel (Production by Joe Burrough) rpt 24/05/1956
22/05/1956 R. S. Thomas, The Minister (Production by Aneirin Talfan) rpt 26/05/1956
23/05/1956 Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (Adapted for broadcasting by Norman Ginsbury from his English version) (Production by Mary Hope Allen)
27/05/1956 Aeschylus, The Oresteia Part 1 ‘Agamemnon', Part 2 ‘The Choephori' or 'The Libation Bearers', Part 3 'The Eumenides' (A new translation by Philip Vellacott with music by Antony Hopkins) (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes) (The three parts repeated on consecutive evenings: 22/11/1956 and 23/11/1956 and 24/11/1956 and on the same evening 14/10/1956)
28/05/1956 Samuel Johnson, Rasselas ‘Prince of Abyssinia' (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller)
01/05/1956 Johann Nestroy, Liberty Comes to Krahwinkel ('Freiheit iKrähwinkel') (Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) (Translated and freely adapted by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch) (Production by Norman Wright) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston directed by Patrick Savill)
03/06/1956 Bertolt Brecht, Puntila (Translated by Richard Grenter and Gerhard Nellhaus and adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 06/06/1956 and 01/09/1956
04/06/1956 James Hanley, Welsh Sonata (Adapted for radio by Dorothy Baker) (Produced by Elwyn Evans) rpt 05/06/1956 and 18/12/1956
08/06/1956 George Moore, Ulick and Soracha (From 'A Story-Teller's Holiday') (Script and production by E. J. King Bull) (Music composed and conducted by Peter Crossley-Holland)
13/06/1956 John Ford, The Broken Heart (Music composed by Anthony Bernard (Radio script and production by R. D. Smith) rpt 27/09/1956
18/06/1956 Giles Cooper, Mathry Beacon (Music arranged and played by Freddie Clayton) (Production by Donald McWhinnle) rpt 21/06/1956 and 21/08/1956
22/06/1956 Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, The Four Horizons
24/06/1956 David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Dramatic script and production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 30/06/1956
26/06/1956 Paul Claudel, The Divide of Noon (‘Partage de Midi') (Translated by Geoffrey Brereton) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie) ) rpt 29/06/1956 and 23/07/1956
27/06/1956 Paul Claudel, ‘Partage de Midi' (A broadcast performance in French of the Jean-Louis Barrault production) (Produced for radio by J. Weltman)
28/06/1956 Maurice Cranston, A Dialogue on Toleration (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
01/07/1956 Henry Green, Loving (Adapted for radio and produced by Frederick Bradnum) rpt 06/07/1956 and 21/09/1956
02/07/1956 René Hague, La Bonne Lorraine (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 07/07/1956
10/07/1956 Charles Cordier, The Beauty from Samos (Based on the extant fragments of ' The Samian Woman ' by Menander) (Translated from the French by Joanna Richardson and Patric Dickinson) (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) (Produced by Charles Lefeaux)
11/07/1956 Menander, The Arbitration (A fragmentary comedy) (Translated and completed by Gilbert Murray) (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) (Produced by Charles Lefeaux) rpt 15/07/1956
12/07/1956 David Gascoyne, Night Thoughts (Music by Humphrey Searle) (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
13/07/1956 Menander, The Rape of the Locks (Translated and completed by Gilbert Murray) (Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins) (Produced by Charles Lefeaux) rpt 17/07/1956
15/07/1956 Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan, The Quest for Corbett (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 19/07/1956 and 02/12/1956
18/07/1956 Wyndham Lewis, Tarr (Incidental music composed by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) rpt 20/07/1956
22/07/1956 Bernard Shaw, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 25/07/1956 and 16/11/1956
24/07/1956 Sean O'Faolain, Imaginary Conversations “The Train to Banbury” (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall)
27/07/1956 Done Very Gently or Mr. Punch's Biography of George Bernard Shaw (Edited and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 28/07/1956
29/07/1956 Eric Ewens, The Ivory Lighthouse (Robert Louis Stevenson and the Samoan Imbroglio (1890-94)) (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 31/07/1956
01/08/1956 Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus (Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston) (Orchestra and BBC Singers conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 04/08/1956 and 13/10/1956
03/08/1956 Paul Ferris, Five Houses Fell Down (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 04/08/1956 and 30/12/1956
05/08/1956 Michael J. Molloy, The King of Friday’s Men (Adapted for broadcasting by the author) (Incidental music composed and directed by John Buckland) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 08/08/1956 and 21/10/1956
10/08/1956 Henry Reed, A Hedge, Backwards (Production by Douglas Cleverdon)
12/08/1956 John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Production by Michael Bakewell) rpt 15/08/1956
17/08/1956 Naomi Lewis, Mrs. Wilcox and the Message of Hope (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon)
19/08/1956 Dorothy Baker, In the Bosom of the Family (Production by Christopher Sykes)
20/08/1956 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nekrassov (Translated by Sylvia Leeson and George Leeson) (Adaptation and production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 22/08/1956 and 03/11/1956
26/08/1956 George Chapman, Bussy D’Ambois (Radio script and production by R. D. Smith) (Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark) rpt 28/08/1956 and 13/12/1956
04/09/1956 J. Maclaren–Ross, A Visit to the Villa Edouard Sept (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 07/09/1956
05/09/1956 Michael J. Molloy, The Paddy Pedlar rpt 08/09/1956 and 30/12/1956
10/09/1956 Julien Green, The Enemy (Translated from the French by Robert Speaight) (Incidental music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 15/09/1956
14/09/1956 Michael Wharton, Portrait of the Colonel (Production by Christopher Sykes) (First broadcast 05/12/1956)
16/09/1956 Schiller, Maria Stuart (Translated by Joseph Mellish) (Adapted for radio and produced by Julius Gellner) (Music composed by Roberto Gerhard) rpt 18/09/1956 and 30/11/1956
19/09/1956 Edward Hyams, Lilliput Revisited (Produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 22/09/1956
23/09/1956 Jeremy Sandford, It Is For Ever (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 24/09/1956
25/09/1956 Jean Giraudoux, Siegfried (English version by Penelope Davidson and E. J. King Bull) (Adaptation and production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 28/09/1956
26/09/1956 Henry Reed, The Streets of Pompeii (Produced by Douglas Cleverdon) (Music composed by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Music conducted by Patrick Savill with Sidney Fell (clarinet))
29/09/1956 Dorothy Baker, Guest and Stranger (Production by Christopher Sykes)
29/09/1956 Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones, In Third Gear rpt 01/10/1956 (Music arranged by Bill Williamson conducted by Nat Temple) (Produced by Francis Dillon) rpt 25/10/1956
30/09/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 1 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
01/10/1956 Aristophanes, The Frogs (A new English version by Dudley Fitts with music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen) (Produced by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 28/12/1956
01/10/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 2 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
02/10/1956 Eugene Ionesco, La Photo Du Colonel ( or ‘II Reste à Trouver') (Music by Pierre Barbaud) (Produced by Michel Polac in collahoration with the Club d'Essai of RTF, and recorded in their studios) (To be broadcast in the original French)
02/10/1956 Donald Jonson and Clifford Williams, Stephen Dedalus Part 1 (Adapted from James Joyce 's ' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ' and ' Stephen Hero ') (Production by David Thomson)
02/10/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 3 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
03/10/1956 Donald Jonson and Clifford Williams, Stephen Dedalus Part 2 (Adapted from James Joyce 's ' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ' and ' Stephen Hero ') (Production by David Thomson)
03/10/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 4 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
04/10/1956 George Barker, The Seraphina (or 'Round the Heart in Any Year’) (With music composed by Lennox Berkeley) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 25/11/1956
04/10/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 5 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
05/10/1956 Angus Wilson, The Memoirs of Mrs. Cramp: Episode 6 (Production by Christopher Sykes)
06/10/1956 G. Lowes Dickinson, A Modern Symposium (Arranged for radio by Sasha Moorsom) (Produced by Sasha Moorsom) rpt 02/11/1956
07/10/1956 Ugo Betti, Crime on Goat Island (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Henry Reed) (Music composed by William Wordsworth) (Produced by John Gibson) rpt 12/10/1956
08/10/1956 Louis MacNeice, Carpe Diem (Produced by Louis MacNeice) rpt 11/10/1956
15/10/1956 Edward Scobie, The Humble Instrument of Biographical Zeal (Produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 16/10/1956
17/10/1956 Henry James, The Princess Casamassima 1—'The Making of a Revolutionary' (Adapted for radio in three parts by Mary Hope Allen) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 23/10/1956
18/10/1956 Henry James, The Princess Casamassima 2—'The Princess and her Bookbinder' (Adapted for radio in three parts by Mary Hope Allen) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen ) rpt 24/10/1956
19/10/1956 Henry James, The Princess Casamassima 3—'The Princess walks'from Camberwell to Paddington’ (Adapted for radio in three parts by Mary Hope Allen) (Produced by Mary Hope Allen) rpt 25/10/1956
28/10/1956 William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and others: Sir Thomas G. Lowes Dickinson (Adapted by Ormetod Greenwood) (Production by Michael Bakewell) rpt 01/11/1956
29/10/1956 Bryan Merryman, The Midnight Court (Translated by Frank O'Connor) (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) rpt 31/10/1956
04/11/1956 Anton Chekhov, The Wood Demon (Translated from the Russian by David Tutaev) (Music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 09/11/1956
05/11/1956 Samy Fayad, Don Juan in Love (Translated from the Italian by Henry Reed) (Production by Douglas Cleverdon) (The songs set by Donald Swann) rpt 07/11/1956
06/11/1956 Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (Translated from the Russian by David Tutaev) (Music by John Hotchkis) (Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes) rpt 10/11/1956
11/11/1956 Jean Anouilh, The Lark (Translated by Christopher Fry) (Production by Val Gielgud) rpt 13/11/1956
14/11/1956 Laurie Lee, Black Saturday, Red Sunday (Production by Louis MacNeice) rpt 15/11/1956
17/11/1956 D. G. Bridson, The Quest of Gilgamesh (Music composed and conducted by Walter Goehr) (Produced by D. G. Bridson) (A new production of the programme originally broadcast on November 29, 1954)
18/11/1956 John Barton, The First Stage I-Introduction (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Production by Raymond Raikes) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 11/12/1956
19/11/1956 L. R. Adrian, The Man on the Gate (Produced by Archie Campbell) rpt 20/11/1956
19/11/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 1—' Fangorn ' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 22/11/1956
25/11/1956 John Barton, The First Stage 2-Mystery Plays: The Old Testament: 'The Creation and Fall of Man', 'Noah's Flood', ' Abraham and Isaac', (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Production by Raymond Raikes) (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 27/11/1956 and 21/12/1956
26/11/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 2-' Rohan and Isengard' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 29/11/1956
28/11/1956 Michael Wharton, The Young England Party (Production by Christopher Sykes) rpt 01/12/1956
02/12/1956 Molière, The Misanthrope (Translated from the French by John Ozell) (Music by Anthony Bernard ) (Radio adaptation and production by Norman Wright (Incidental music played by London Chamber Orchestra, leader Lionel Bentley, conducted by the composer) rpt 06/12/1956
02/12/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 3 — 'Into the Dark ' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 07/12/1956
04/12/1956 Molière, ‘Le Misanthrope’ (A broadcast performance in French of the Jean-Louis Barrault production) (Produced for radio by J. Weltman)
08/12/1956 William Golding, Envoy Extraordinary (Produced by Peter Duval Smith) (Incidental music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark)
09/12/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 4 — 'The Siege of Gondor' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 12/12/1956
14/12/1956 Henry de Montherlant, Port-Royal (Translated from the French by Robert Speaight) (Produced by Michael Bakewell) (Sunday afternoon's recorded broadcast)
15/12/1956 David Karp, One (From his novel, adapted and produced by Nesta Pain)
16/12/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 5 — ' Minas Tirith and Mount Doom ' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 18/12/1956
16/12/1956 General Burgoyne, The Heiress (Adapted for radio by Helena Wood) (Produced by Martyn C. Webster) rpt 22/12/1956
23/12/1956 Sybille Bedford, A Legacy (Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author) rpt 27/12/1956
23/12/1956 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 6— 'Many Partings' (An adaptation In six parts from volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy) (Music by Anthony Smith-Masters) (Adapted and produced by Terence Tiller) rpt 27/12/1956
24/12/1956 John Barton, The First Stage 3-Mystery Plays: (A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s) (Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton) (Production by Raymond Raikes) The Nativity (Music composed by Elizabeth Poston with Stephen Manton, tenor) (The Ambrosian Singers and the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson) rpt 25/12/1956
26/12/1956 Dorothy Baker, Guest and Stranger (Production by Christopher Sykes)
30/12/1956 Henrik Ibsen, Brand
31/12/1956 Gerard McLarnon, The Good Journey
Alistair Wyper, 28 January 2018 (.....Many thanks - Ed)
