Thursday 30 October 2014

Beatrix radio and TV for the BBC 1957-1959

Third Programme, 14 January 1957 19.35
Beatrix Lehmann in ' THE BURNT OFFERING' by Albrecht Goes
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes
Narrator: Denis Goacher
Frau Walker: Beatrix Lehmann
Sabine Berendson: Margot van Der Burgh
S S Officer: Kenneth Connor
The Rabbi: Bernard Rebel
Frau Zalewsky: Joan Matheson
S S Junior Officer: John Baker
Herr Berendson: Anthony Jacobs
The Pastor: Anthony Shaw

Third Programme, 15 January 1957 21.25
Beatrix Lehmann in 'THE BURNT OFFERING'
by Albrecht Goes Translated by Michael Hamburger
Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes
(as above)

Third Programme, 9 April 1957 20.10
Beatrix Lehmann and Maurice Denham with Andree Melly and Allan McClelland in , THE REPAIR OF HEAVEN'  by E. J. King Bull 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  with Felicity Askew , Diana Campbell and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The Dream of the Red Chamber, the first Chinese novel [actually it's not], provides a vivid picture of aristocratic life during the flowering period of the eighteenth century, in the foreground of which unfolds the love story of Pao-Yu and Black Jade.
In writing the music the composer has made use of the Chinese five-note scale, using unusual combinations of woodwind and percussion to suggest features characteristic of oriental music.
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.30-9.40 app.): Gramophone records of Trio Sonata in D (Alessandro Stradella, ed. Montanari), played by the Trio di Bolzano
Characters in order of speaking:
The Stone: Allan McClelland
Chia Pao-Yu: Allan McClelland
The Bonze: John Glyn-Jones
The Priest: Anthony Jacobs
Chen Shih-Ying: Maurice Denham
The Blade of Grass: Andrée Melly
Black Jade: Andrée Melly
Purple Cuckoo: Sheila Grant
The Dowager: Beatrix Lehmann
Phoenix: Yang Lian-Shin
Lady Wang, mother of Pao-Yu: Madeleine Christie
Lady Chin-Shih: Dilys Hamlett
Pervading Fragrance: Denise Bryer
The Goddess of Monitory Vision: Dilys Hamlett
Precious Virtue: Mary Law
Chia Cheng, father of Pao-Yu: Felix Felton
Doctor Chang: John Glyn-Jonea
Chia Yung: Hugh Manning
Patience: Beryl Calder
Chia Jui: Roger Delgado
Palace Official: Alan Wheatley
Snow Duck: Annette Kelly
Big Sister Silly: Mary Law

Third Programme, 13 April 1957 18.00
Beatrix Lehmann and Maurice Denham with Andree Melly and Allan McClelland in 'THE REPAIR OF HEAVEN'
by E. J. King Bull from 'The Dream of the Red Chamber' by Tsaoh Hsueh-Chin and Kao Ngoh
(as above)

Third Programme, 2 June 1957 20.00
' A FATHER AND HIS FATE'
A new novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes In collaboration with the author
Production by Christopher Sykes
This novel is to be published in August
(Beatrix Lehmann is in Waltz of the Toreadors ' at the Criterion Theatre; Patience Collier in Nude with Violin' at the Globe Theatre; John Glen in ' Tea and Sympathy ' at the Comedy Theatre, London)
Miles Mowbray: Norman Shelley
Ellen Mowbray his wife: Joan Matheson
His daughters: Ursula: Joan Hart
His daughters: Constance: Patience Collier
His daughters: Audrey: Ann Totten
Malcolm Mowbray his nephew: Donald Gray
Miss Gibbon: Dorothy Black
Everard, the butler: Geoffrey Wincott
Eliza Mowbray Malcolm's mother: Beatrix Lehmann
Eliza's younger sons: Nigel Mowbray: Warren Hearnden
Eliza's younger sons: Rudolf Mowbray: Martin Starkie
Miss Manders: Betty Hardy
Verena Gray: Prunella Scales

Third Programme, 16 June 1957 18.00
Beatrix Lehmann. Esme Percy Ernestine Costa and Bill Owen in 'THE RATS'
A Berlin tragi-comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann
Translated and adapted for radio byCharlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd
The action takes place in a Berlin tenement block (formerly a cavalry barracks) at the turn of the century: in the attic where Hassenreuter has his theatrical storeroom and drama school, and in Frau John's Bat.
Produced by H. B. Fortuin
Characters in order of speaking:
Frau John: Beatrix Lehmann
Pauline Piperkarcka a servant girl: Ernestine Costa
Bruno Mechelke, Frau John's brother: Bill Owen
Walburga Hassenreuter: Beryl Calder
Harro Hassenreuter, a former theatrical director: Esmé Percy
Nathaniel Jettel, a court actor: Arthur Young
Alice Rtitterbusch, an actress: Marjorie Westbury
Erich Spltta, a student of theology: William Eedle
Herr John, a foreman bricklayer: George Merritt
Selma Knobbe: Denise Brver
Frau Hassenreuter: Vivienne Chatterton
Hassenreuter's drama students: Käferstein: Haydn Jones
Dr Kegel: Simon Lack
Emil Quarquaro the caretaker: Eric Anderson
Pastor Spltta: James Thomason
Frau Kielbacke: Joan Sanderson
Frau Sidonie Knobbe: Gladys Spencer
Constable Schierke: John Graham

Third Programme, 21 June 1957 20.35
Beatrix Lehmann, Esme Percy Ernestine Costa and Bill Owen in 'THE RATS'
A Berlin tragi-comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann
(as above)

Third Programme, 5 August 1957 19.35
'A FATHER AND HIS FATE'
A new novel by Ivy Compton -Burnett Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes
In collaboration with the author
 Production by Christopher Sykes
Like all Miss Compton-Burnett's work, this novel (to be published on August 12) is ruthless to pretension and to unrelenting notions of morality, but to authentic emotion and moral reality it is reverent and compassionate.
(as above)

Third Programme, 13 August 1957 20.25
Beatrix Lehmann Esme Percy, Ernestine Costa and Bill Owen in 'THE RATS'
A Berlin tragi-comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann
Translated and adapted for radio by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd
(as above)

Third Programme, 14 August 1957 21.00
Beatrix Lehmann in 'THE BURNT OFFERING'
by Albrecht Goes  Translated by Michael Hamburger
Adapted for radio and produced by Christopher Sykes
(as above)

BBC Home Service Basic, 15 August 1958 21.45
- THESE FOOLISH THINGS
Remind you of what?  Roy Plomley invites a reply from Isobel Barnett Beatrix Lehmann
Eamonn Andrews Michael Ayrton Rene MacColl Peter Scott Based on an idea by Nancy Spain
Produced by Pat Dixon

Third Programme, 26 October 1958 17.00
'THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS'
by Bertolt Brecht  Translated by H. R. Hays


Third Programme, 11 January 1959 17.35
' THE LANDLADY'
(no details see below)


Third Programme, 3 February 1959 21.00
Beatrix Lehmann with Frances Cuka, Leo McKern and Norman Shelley in 'THE LANDLADY*
La Logeuse by Jacques Audiberti Translated and adapted by Thomas Walton
Produced By: R. D. Smith
The landlady Mme Cirque: Beatrix Lehmann
Her daughter, Christine: Frances Cuka
Her first lodger M Tienne: Leo McKern
Her husband: Norman Shelley
Her daughter's fiance Antoine: Ian Lubbock
A neighbour Pierre: John Dearth
A porter, Gregoire: Brian Wilde
An elderly police inspector: Baliol Holloway
A young police inspector: John Hollis
The second lodger, Flugelmann: Philip Cunningham
A prospective lodger: Hugh Manning

Light Programme, 18 February 1959 14.00
WOMAN'S HOUR
Guest of the Week: Beatrix Lehmann
Letter from South Africa: Barbara McFadyean sends more news from Johannesburg
My Old Cocked Hat: Commander Ibbett looks back
Reading Your Letters
You Ask For It: Why send satellites into space? Can this harm mankind? C. L. Boltz gives his answers
Serial: 'The Warden ' by Trollope Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Derek Hart  Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
(Beatrix Lehmann broadcasts by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust)
News Summary at 2.30

Network Three, 10 March 1959 19.30
TALKING OF THEATRE
A monthly magazine programme
Acting Lady Macbeth and Mrs. Alving
BEATRIX LEHMANN and FLORA ROBSON talk with Richard Findlater about the heroines of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Ibsen's Ghosts from the actress's point of view. Lady Macbeth and Mrs. Alving are in the repertoire of both artists.
The Theatre in the Commonwealth
I-India  PETER COE, appointed resident producer of the Mermaid Theatre, London, has been to India to produce Twelfth Night with an all-Indian cast. He discusses his impressions with RANEN Roy , a founder-member of the Little Theatre in Calcutta.

BBC Home Service Basic, 22 March 1959 9.10
HOME FOR THE DAY
Marjorie Anderson introduces
Starting Out: a series of interviews with some young men and women who have just begun work
Beatrix Lehmann : a recent guest in Woman's Hour
Johnny Morris describing some of the people he meets
John Freeman enquiring into the procedure at Juvenile Courts

Third Programme, 2 April 1959 21.10
THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS'
A verse play for radio by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by H. R. Hays
(first broadcast Oct 1958)

Network Three, 5 May 1959 19.30
TALKING OF THEATRE The Theatre in Hungary Today
Impressions gained by Andre Van Gyseghem during a recent visit
On Acting Lady Macbeth and Mrs. Alving
Beatrix Lehmann and Flora Robson
An exchange of views by these two actresses on their approach to their roles in Macbeth and Ibsen's Ghosts. This discussion, with Richard Find-later in the chair, originally broadcast on March 10 in a shortened version, is now given in full.

BBC Home Service Basic, 5 July 1959 9.10
HOME FOR THE DAY
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
From the Birthday Honours List: two guests from Woman's Hour
Triumph over Adversity: Harry Driver talks to Ronald Lloyd about starting again after polio
Irene Nicholson talks of the Mexican scene
Glamour: interpreted by Evelyn Laye , Phyllis Digby - Morton, Beatrix Lehmann , and Gilbert Harding

Third Programme, 3 August 1959 20.00
Beatrix Lehmann with Frances Cuka, Leo McKcrn and Norman Shelley in 'THE LANDLADY'
La Logeuse ') by Jacques Audiberti
Translated and adapted by Thomas Walton
Produced by R. D. Smith
(first broadcast 1 Jan 1959)

Light Programme, 24 August 1959 14.45
ECHOES OF WOMAN'S HOUR
'Publicity' and Glamour ': reactions to these words. Speakers include Viscountess Lewisham, Dame Edith Sitwell , Naomi Jacob , Beatrix Lehmann , and Gilbert Harding

Third Programme, 16 September 1959 20.00
' A HERITAGE AND ITS HISTORY'
by Ivy Compton-Burnett  Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes
In collaboration with the author Narration by John Sharp
Production by Christopher Sykes
Sir Edwin Challoner: Norman Shelley
Julia Challoner, Sir Edwin's sister-in-law: Beatrix Lehmann
Julia's sons: Simon Challoner: John Neville
Julia's sons: Walter Challoner: Geoffrey Wincott
Deakin: Alec Finter
Rhoda Challoner, Sir Edwin's wife: Patience Collier
Fanny Graham, Rhoda's sister: Betty Linton
Hamish Challoner, Rhoda's son: David Spenser
Simon's children: Graham Challoner: Martin Starkie
Simon's children: Ralph Challoner: Jeremy Spenser
Simon's children: Naomi Challoner: Armine Sandfora
Marcia Challoner, Hamish's wife: Mary O'Farrell
Miss Dolton: Jane Eccles

Third Programme, 9 October 1959 20.00
A HERITAGE AND ITS HISTORY'
by Ivy Compton-Burnett Adapted for radio by Christopher Sykes
In collaboration with the author
(As above)

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