Beatrix radio and TV for the BBC 1960-1962

Dates and descriptions from the online radio times archive

Light Programme, 6 January 1960 14.00
WOMAN'S HOUR
First Guests of 1960: chosen from the New Year Honours list
Echoes of Guests of 1959: in. cluding Denis Matthews , Beatrix Lehmann , the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood , Peter Hall , Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat , Humphrey Lyttelton and Joan Sutherland
Reading Your Letters
The Queen's English: in discussion: Dora Saint , Barbara Clay -pole and Leonard Buckley
Serial: Nine Coaches Waiting' by Mary Stewart
Abridged by Edward Blishen Read by Mary Wimbush
The seventh of thirteen instalments
Introduced by Teresa McGonagle
News Summary at 2.30

Third Programme, 21 January 1960 21.50
'THE DARK VALLEY'
A radio monologue by W. H. Auden
Music by Matyas Seiber with BEATRIX LEHMANN as the Old Woman and Harold Reese as the Goose
This work was first performed in the U.S.A. in 1940 in the Columbia Workshop Programme, a series distinguished for the experimental nature of its broadcasts. This is its first performance in this country.

Third Programme, 13 February 1960 19.00
' THE DARK VALLEY '
A radio monologue by W. H. Auden
(as above)

BBC Home Service Basic, 14 February 1961 22.30
TONIGHT'S SHORT STORY
Crime in Our Village by Beatrix Lehmann
Read by Mary Wimbush
(Appeared in new writings, new series no 2 1939)

Third Programme, 21 March 1961 20.25
ST. JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd
Songs composed by Hans-Dieter Hosalla
Incidental music composed by Humphrey Searle with Siobhan McKenna as Joan Dark and Frank Pettingell
Beatrix Lehmann , Malcolm Hayes
Choruses of Speculative Buyers, Stockbreeders, Brokers, Small Investors. Workers, and all other parts spoken by members of the cast
Songs by the cast with a section of the Ambrosian Singers Music conducted by Humphrey Searle
The play edited for radio and produced by H. B. FORTUIN To be repeated on April 9
Speaker: Catherine Dolan
Commentator: Martin Starkie
Joan Dark: Siobhan McKenna
Paulus Snyder: Charles Leno
Martha: Catherine Dolan
A girl: Penelope Lee
Mulberry, a Landlord: Derek Birch
Pierpont Mauler, Meat King: Frank Pettingell
Sullivan Slift, his Broker: Malcolm Hayes
Cridle: Geoffrey Wincott
Graham: Leslie Perrins
Meyers: Rolf Lefebvre
Lennox: David Bird
Mrs Luckerniddle, a worker's wife: Beatrix Lehmann
Gloomb: Michael Turner
A waiter: Nigel Anthony
Mrs Swingurn: Eithne Dunne
An Apprentice: Jon Rollason
A Workers' Leader: Gabriel Woolf
A Detective: John Bennett

Third Programme, 9 April 1961 19.50
ST. JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS
by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by CHARLOTTE and A. L. LLOYD
(as above)

BBC Home Service Basic, 21 April 1961 15.30
A WORLD OF SOUND
A weekly exploration of the BBC Sound Archives
SHAKESI'EAKE TODAY And how he was performed yesterday
People of present-day theatre recall some of their own most notable performances, and the example set by some of their predecessors
Contributors include: W. Bridges-Adams Dame Peggy Ashcroft Fabia Drake Dame Edith Evans Sir John Gielgud Sir Tyrone Guthrie Beatrix Lehmann Peter O'Toole W. Macqueen-Pope Dame Flora Robson Sir Donald Wolflt Dame Sybil Thorndike
Written and narrated by Brian Sanders
Compiled and produced by Ian Cotterell

Third Programme, 11 September 1961 20.00
ST. JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS
by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd
(as above)

Third Programme, 16 February 1962 20.00
THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL
by Ivy COMPTON-BURNETT adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes
In collaboration with the author
Lavinia Middleton. ... Patience Collier Selina Middleton. ...Beatrix Lehmann Ninian's children:
Narration by John Glen
Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Patience Collier broadcasts by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Carleton Hobbs is appearing in 'Luther' at the Phoenix Theatre, London To be repeated on March 4 See page 50
Agnes: Anna Bentinck
Leah: Veronica Page
Hengist: Shaun Sculley
Ninian Middleton: Norman Shelley
Egbert: Jeremy Spenser
Hugo: Geoffrey Wincott
Ransom: Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Chilton: Joan Hart
Miss Starkie: Dorothy Black
Ainger: David William
Cook: Gladys Spencer

Third Programme, 4 March 1962 21.00
THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL
by IVY COMPTON-BURNETT adapted by Christopher Sykes in collaboration with the author
Narration by John Glen
(as above)

BBC Television, 16 March 1962 22.00
THE GHOST SONATA by AUGUST STRINDBERG
Translated from the Swedish by Michael Meyer starring ROBERT HELPMANN
BEATRIX LEHMANN JEREMY BRETT with Thomas Heathcote William Mervyn
John Kidd Ann Bell
Produced by Stuart Burge
 Music for the harp composed and played by OSIAN ELLIS
Designer, Clifford Hatts
An old man in a wheel-chair offers his patronage to a young student, on one condition-that he goes to a performance of The Valkyrie and asks no questions.
Produced By: Stuart Burge
The Poet: John Rae
The Student: Jeremy Brett
The Old Man: Robert Helpmann
The Milkmaid: Linda Gardner
The Dark Lady: Yvonne Coulette
The Caretaker's Wife: Miki Iveria
The Colonel's Daughter: Ann Bell
The Fiancée: Jane Eccles
The Dead Man: George McGrath
Johansson: Thomas Heathcote
The Nobleman: Arthur Lawrence
Bengtsson: John Kidd
The Mummy: Beatrix Lehmann
The Colonel: William Mervyn
The Cook: Anna Wing
The Maid: Mary McMillen

Third Programme, 17 April 1962 20.25
A HUSBAND by ITALO SVEVO
translated by G. H. McWilliam with Maxine Audley , Michael Gough
Paul Daneman , Beatrix Lehmann
Production by MARTIN ESSLIN
To be repeated on May 6
Italo Svevo (1861-1928), the Triestine writer who was James Joyce 's friend, has long been acknowledged as one of the great novelists of our century. But until the publication of a volume of his plays two years ago it had not been realised that he was also passionately interested in the theatre. A Husband, which Svevo wrote at the turn of the century, is a dark comedy of marital love, jealousy, and fidelity.
Federico Arcetri, a lawyer: Michael Gough
Bice, his wife: Maxine Audley
Professor Alfredo Reali, Bice's brother: Nigel Stock
Paolo Mansi: Paul Daneman
Amelia, his wife: Gudrun Ure
Arianna Pareti: Beatrix Lehmann
Augusto, Arcetri's confidential secretary: Will Leighton
Giovanna, an elderly maidservant: Peggy Butt

Third Programme, 6 May 1962 20.35
A HUSBAND
by ITALO SVEVO translated by G. H. McWilliam with Maxine Audley , Michael Gough Paul Daneman , Beatrix Lehmann
Production by MARTIN ESSLIN
: second broadcast
(as above)

BBC Television, 8 June 1962 22.25
THE CHAIRS A tragic farce by EUGENE IONESCO
Translated by Donald Watson
Produced by Naomi Capon it
BEATRIX LEHMANN as The Old Woman
CYRIL CUSACK as The Old Man
BARRY LETTS as The Orator and many others
Designer. Kenneth Lawson
From the North
He is ninety-five. She is ninety-four. Before they die, he must deliver his message to mankind. The chairs are arranged. The guests are on their way to hear the message. Such extraordinary guests ...

BBC Home Service Basic, 10 June 1962 16.15
NATHAN AND TABILETH
by BARRY BERMANGE with Beatrix Lehmann and Meier Tzelniker
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY
Nathan: Meier Tzelniker
Tabileth, his wife: Beatrix Lehmann
Bernie, their grandson: Haydn Jones
Two old people sit side by side on a park bench. Everything seems familiar, but already the memory is beginning to play strange tricks....

Third Programme, 29 August 1962 22.00
NATHAN AND TABILETH
by BARRY BERMANGE with Beatrix Lehmann and Meier Tzelniker
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY
The broadcast of June to in the Home Service
(as above)

Third Programme, 31 August 1962 20.00
THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL
by Ivy Compton-Burnett adapted by CHRISTOPHER SYKES in collaboration with the author
Narration by JOHN GLEN
Production, CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Third broadcast (First Feb See above)
The producer writes: ' In The Mighty and their Fall Miss Compton-Burnett again presents us with a family setting, again with a great difference. The Middletons, ruled by a sly egoist. Ninian, and by a lovable eccentric, ' Grandma,' form an inward-looking group, in need of fresh air. This is suddenly provided by Ransom Middleton, Ninian's brother, who returns from a long wandering career in the outside world. He at last opens the window, but after his death it is shut again, not so much by wilful act as by family instinct. Such Is the main theme of this complex story. It is written with all Miss Compton-Burnett's vigour and brilliance.'

Third Programme, 28 September 1962 20.00
PILLARS OF SOCIETY by Henrik Ibsen
Translated and adapted for radio by MAX FABER with Paul Rogers and Beatrix Lehmann
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Paul Rogers is in ' Photo Finish' at the Saville Theatre: Frank Finlay in ' Chips with Everything ' at the Vaudeville Theatre; Peter Copley in * The New Men ' at the Strand Theatre. London
Krap, the chief clerk: Leslie Perrins
Aune, the shipyard foreman: Tom Watson
Rorlund, a schoolteacher: Frank Finlay
Mrs Rummel: Mary O'Farrell
Mrs Holt, the Postmaster's wife: Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Betty Bernick, the Consul's wire: Grizelda Hervey
Dina Dorf, a young girl liv ing with the Bernicks: Valerie Kirkbright
Martha Bernick, the Consul's sister: Barbara Lott
Hilmar Tonnesen, Mrs Bernick's cousin: Peter Copley
Olaf Bernick, the Consul's son: Carlo Cura
Mrs Lynge the Doctor's Wife: Vivienne Chatterton
Karsten Bernick, a Consul: Paul Rogers
Vigeland, a tradesman: Will Leighton
Rummel, a business man: Malcolm Hayes
Sandstad, a tradesman: Frank Partington
Lona Hessel, Mrs. Bernick's elder step-sister: Beatrix Lehmann
Johan Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's younger brother: William Eedle

Third Programme, 14 October 1962 20.20
PILLARS OF SOCIETY by Henrik Ibsen
Translated and adapted for radio by MAX FABER with Paul Rogers and Beatrix Lehmann
The action takes place in Consul Bernick's house in a small Norwegian coastal town in 1877. Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX t Second broadcast
Paul Rogers is in ' Photo Finish at the Saville Theatre: Frank Finlay in * Chips with Everything' at the Vaudeville Theatre: Peter Copley in ' The New Men at the Strand Theatre. London
(as above)

BBC Television, 5 November 1962 21.25
MAIGRET  A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon starring
RUPERT DAVIES as Chief Inspector Maigret with EWEN SOLON as Lucas and Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret The Dirty House Dramatised by Giles Cooper from the novel
' Maigret se f ache '
Guest stars:
Beatrix Lehmann
Ernest Clark
Rosalie Crutchley
Directed by Terence Williams Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Eileen Diss
Music composed by RON GRAINER Film cameraman, Hugh Wilson
Film editor, Barry Toovey Script editor, Donald Bull
Executive producer, ANDREW OSBORN Associate, Bill Luckwell
produced in association with Winwell Productions Ltd.
Dragged from his holiday to investigate the drowning of a young girl, Maigret uncovers a murder that is beyond reach of the law.
See page 19
Monita: Maureen Beck
Charles Malik: Neil Wilson
Chief Inspector Maigret: Rupert Davies
Madame Maigret: Helen Shingler
Bernadette Amorelle: Beatrix Lehmann
Ernest Malik: Ernest Clark
George Henry: Christopher Sandford
Odette Malik: Nicolette Bernard
Raymonde: Sheila Ballantine
Jeanne: Olive Sloane
Aimee Malik: Rosalie Crutchley
Manservant: Bill Raymond
Campois: Meadows White
Lucas: Ewen Solon
Mimille: Dermot Kelly
Marcel: Felix Felton

BBC Television, 18 November 1962 21.00
THE SUNDAY-NIGHT PLAY
starring
EDMUND SIOBHAN PURDOM MrKENNA
BEATRIX LEHMANN in The Aspern Papers by HENRY JAMES
Television play by John O'Toole Produced by Rudolph Cartier
The action takes place in London and Venice in the 1890s.
Costumes by Elizabeth Agombar Make-up by Rosemary Ross Settings by Natasha Kroll
Cast in order of appearance:
Juliana Bordereau: Beatrix Lehmann
Tina, her niece: Siobhan McKenna
Isabella, her maid: Jo Crawford
Harvey Morrison: Edmund Purdom
John Cumnor, his publisher: Clement McCallin
Mrs Prest: Patricia Laffan
Pasquale, Harvey's manservant: Michael Mellinger
Jeffrey Aspern's voice: Geoffrey Matthews

Third Programme, 4 December 1962 21.15
CROSS PURPOSE  Le Malentendu by Albert Camus
Translated by STUART GILBERT
' Anyhow, to my mind the man was asking for trouble; one shouldn'play fool tricks of that sort.'
Meursault in The Outsider by ALBERT CAMUS with Kenneth Haigh as Jan, the Son Beatrix Lehmann as The Mother Rosalie Crutchley as Martha the Sister
Gudrun Ure as Maria, the Wife and George Hagan as The Old Manservant Produced by Richard IMISON
To be repeated on January 4 See page 26