Radio Times, June 3, 1955 - solearabiantree

Radio Times (Incorporatin.g World-Radio)
June 3, 1955. Vol. 127, No. 1647
Regi5tered at the G.P.C. as a Newspaper
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BBC SOUND AND TELEVISION
PROGRAMMES . .. JUNE 5-11
Trooping the 'Colour'
The Official Birthday of Her
Majesty the Queen on Thursday
is marked by the traditional cere~
many on Horse Guards Parade
Television and Light Programme
BAYEUX MEMORIAL
H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester unveils
the memorial to those who fell in
Normandy: Sunday, Home (see page 3)
TEN YEARS OF EUROPE
Europe since the war by Alan Bullock
Tuesday and Wednesday,Home (see page 3)
THE FIRST TEST
England v. South Africa at Trent Bridge
Thurs. to Sat., Television and Light
'MEET THE HUGGETTS'
Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison in the
Light Programme, Thursday (see page 7)

June 3, 1955 • RADIO TIMES 5
. A Romance of . Richard Lion .. Heart
Maurice Hewlett's vivid historical romances were very popula" in his lifetime, but·
since his death most of them have he en neglected. - One - of the ·best, 'Richard
Yea and Nay,' is now to be presented asa tw,eive-pat.t radio serial,-beginning on
Thursday (Home Services except Scottish), Here ALAN DENT considers Hewlett's
style and introduces. the tale of Coeur-ode-Lion and }ehane Saint-Pol
, Too strong a wine, belike, for some stomachs,
for there's honey in it, and a dibbet of gore, with
other condiments. Yet Mistress Clio (with whom,
some say, Mistress Thalia, that sweet hoyden)
brewed it: she, not I, who do but hand the cup
round by her warrant and good favour. Her
guests, not mine, you shall take it or leave itspill
it untasted or quaff a bellyful.'
- THIS-SO like the introduction to any of
Maurice Hewlett's historical novels-is
really the beginning of Max Beerbohm's
exquisite parody entitled ' Fond Hearts Askew.'
His title fits any of the series of novels beginning
with The Forest Lovers (1898) and continuing
with Richard Yea and Nay (1900), which
Wilfrid Grantham has now made into a radio
serial.
Richard is a romance of the Third Crusade.
It is the Abbot Milo, confessor and friend of
Richard Creur-de-Lion, who tells the story and
'hands the cup round.' The royal crusader is
called' Yea and Nay' bya troubadour because
of the strange contradictions that mark his
nature-'· the loved and loathed,' 'king and
beggar,' 'SPOTt of two fates,' , god and man.'
. Jehane Saint-Pol is the beautiful girl he loved
. and wronged. He renounced her, saying Nay to
his heart, but stole her back from before the
altar, saying Nay to his head. Richard made this
wild young thing Countess of Anjou, but later
he repudiated her when he chose to marry
Berengere whose excellent dowry supplied the
needs of his expedition to the Holy Land.
However, Richard remained faithful to Jehane
in his fashion. .We are told that he made
Berengere his queen but not his wife, because he
stayed true to the memory of J ehane. She, on
her side, 'sacrificed all" for Richard, even
though it meant-in order to save' her royal
lover's life-entering the harem of an extraordinary
character called the Old Man of Musse
who dwelt on Lebanon. She first came into
his' presence wearing a purple vest thickly
embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers
of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers of many folds.
Over her head was a thick white veil heavily
fringed with gold. Round her ankles were little early romantic novels brought him:, 'The rest
bells of gold, and on her feet were scarlet of his life was spent in combating this fame,
slippers. By. comparison the Old Man looked which he always' felt to be, in its origin and
like chastity's very self, 'blkched as a swan, proportion, unbalanced and stultifying to his
robed all in white, white-bearded.' We are in- proper reputation.'
formed in plain words that the Old Man bored My own view is that no author-not even
Jehane, but in equally plain words we are told Sir Hugh himself-has ever combated his own
that she bore him 'at .least four children.' Yet," fame very impressively. Besides, Hewlett wrote
at· the end of it all Richard of the Lion Heart, his romantic tales with an unmistakable relish.
and of the Yea and Nay, died in Jehane's arms, Any page of Richard might easily be Beerbohmthe
romantic hero-of true chivalry. esque parody: 'The country took tints of
Maurice. Hewlett's career can- be conveniently: -Jehane, her shape; her ·fine ·nobility . _. ,instill."
divided into three decades-one of historical green water he read the secret of her eyes; in the
romances (of which Richard Yea' and Nay is a milk of October dawns her calm brows had been
superb example), one of modern novels (his Open dipped .. .'
Country is enchanting and unforgettable), and Romantic nonsense? Perhaps; but it was cerone-
of poems and essays (his Song of the Plow tainly nothing to be seriously ashamed of.
has been authoritatively called' one of the five Besides, if this author was genuinely ashamed'of
epics of English poetry '). Sir Hugh Walpole, his fluency as a historical romancer, why did
who knew him well, seriously maintained that he follow The Forest Lovers with Richard, and
Hewlett was ashamed of the fame which the Richard with The Queen's Quair?
'Holiday Land': a Betti C~medy 'The Nigger of the ."Narcissus." ,
Sunday and Saturday, Third
Monday, Home Service
HE humour of Italians is very like our own, but there is this H ELM'S a-lee! Raise, tacks and sheets! Mainsail haul! These
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difference in their comic drama:' they like the fun to go on, if orders for ' putting about' a square-rigged sailing ship seem so far
possible, the whole time. They spare us those moments of pie-faced back in time that they might belong to the days of Frobisher and
solemnity with which comic dramatists here are wont to becloud their
activities, and which give us the feeling that however funny an Engli'Sh
Drake. Yet there are many men ;llive today who slipped and struggled
along a foam-washed deck to obey them; who hauled, cursing, on the
writer may be, he is always trying to make us vote for somebody.' braces as the great yards swung round; or 'laid out' on an upper topsail
In the same way, it may be remarked that Italian seribus or tragic drama yard while great ocean rollers roared and surged a hundred feet below.
gets 'along very well without the intervention of the comic landlady It is this background which Conrad uses for The Nigger of the
or servant, so often thought .necessary to hold the attention on our own 'Narcissus,' his stirring, macabre tale of an ocean-:-going sailing ship
stage.
homeward-bound from Bombay to London. In the centre of this cockpit
Third Programme listeners will already know Ugo Betti as a serious of human conflict stands (or rather, lies) James Wait, the Negro seaman.
writer. But Holiday Land is not at all serious; it is one of a group of Is Wait sick-or malingering? Whichever it is, he creates an explosive
,three lively comedies first performed in the early years of the war. These atmosphere ready for any man with a spark of malice to touch it off.
comedies stand sharply apart from the rest of Betti's work, and Italian And the man is there all right-Donkin, the vicious guttersnipe' who
critics, with the impressive whole of th~t. work before them, seem a little cannot steer or splice, who, aloft, holds on with both arms and legs, who
to regret their existence.
curses the sea while others work.' You cannot talk your way out of reality
But I am sure they can be quite easily put up with: they are respectably at sea-especially in a windjammer rounding the Cape of Good Hope in
and blessedly escapist, but not into a world of fantasy, only into the winter, drenched, hungry, benumbed-with a great hulking Negro lying
pleasanter parts of reality. Everything in them is, in fact, real enough: at ease in his berth. Remember~ they are short-handed in the Narcissus;
the people, the dialogue, the events, the laughs. The action is well thought a man must be badly incapacitated before others will do his 'pulley-hauley.'
out, the characters well thought into., Is 'James. Wait sick? It is: around this question that the ,story revolves;
And what is Holiday Land about, roughly? Well, many Italian Conrad was born in Poland in 1857 (his family name was Korzeniowski),
comedies of the sixteenth century, and the English comedies based on son of a landed family who had no connection whatever with England or
them, have as their main character a girl trying to persuade the hero that. the sea. In 1874 he left home, despite family remonstrance and, after
she is a boy. Holiday. Land has a girl trying~rather.more desperately, various adventures, made his, way to. England where he signed on· as
to' persuade, the hero that she, is a girl During, the twenty-odd years. of 'ordinary .. seaman in a.woolclipper on the Australian.nm; ,Two,years later",
their acquaintance. he has overlooked.this. point. , he passed his examination- f-or officer. and .rhen' roamed the world·under-the, ,
.Francesca and Alberto have spent.everyholiday.next,door to.each other;, ·red ensign; He became a naturalised British subjeet"in 18.8.6,' obtained his, ,.
he is now twenty~eightand',has'still not noticed. that: she •. now twenty-four, Master Mariner's Certificate the same year; and finally commanded the
is in love with him. The-long'scene, occupying, with interruptions; most," famous clipper ship -Tor:rens in 1893 .
. of act two, in which. Erancesca .attempts to make this clear,. is' among the ,. " .' Polish--deck-hand to· British Master. -Marined Most. men wouI&have
most skilful co;nic scenes I have ever come. across anywhere. It. offers. a , been satisfied. with this, achievement but not,Conrad. ,While: still sailoring'
. great deal to the actors who. are . to' . perform it;, and inevitably; demands ii:!' . he .. was writing" novels---'in - English" .. And so well- had. he mastered the.
great deal also. Holid'l.Y Land is an actors' piece througho.ut ~ that, at any, language of his adopted country,. that he became and.has.remained:famous
rate, it has in common with the:' serious' Betti. But that is. about an .. as a great artist:ofEnghsh prose. He died in 1924 while still working.
HENRY REED on his last novel Suspense. DICK CROSS

'june 3, 1955
RADIO TIMES
Light Programme
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EVENING FRO M 5 • 0
JU~l
P • M •
5.0 p.m. DOWN YOUR WAY
(Continued)
5.30 Bebe Daniels
and Ben Lyon in
LIFE WITH THE LYONS
'We'll -send you a postcard'
with
Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon
Horace Percival, Doris Rogers
Molly Weir, Richard Bellaers
Written by Bob Block,
Ronnie Hanbury and Bebe Daniels
Production by Tom Ronald
(Last Thursday's recorded broadcast)
6.0 PRISONER
AT THE BAR
Edgar Lustgarten presents
a new series of studies in crime
2-Harry Thaw
Two men and a girl; three bullets and
a corpse; it happened in the glare of a
New York nightclub in 1907, But how_
many of the people who saw the murder
done, or who watched the first trial,
could have guessed the extraordinary
outcome?
(BBC recording)
. 6.30 Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards
in
TAKE IT FROM HERE
with Wallas Eaton
Alma Cogan, June Whitfield
The Keynotes .
Announcer, David Dunhill
Script by
Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Charles Maxwell
(Last Thursday's recorded broadcast)
(Jimmy Edwards is in 'The Talk 0/ the
Town' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
Grand Hotel
Jean Pougnet
opens his second year
with the Palm Court Orchestra
in tonight's concert
at 9.0
See' Both Sides of the Microphone'
7.0
Greenwich Time Signa'
News and
RADIO NEWSREEL
A summary of events of the past week
7.30 STAR BILL
Presents the best in
Britain's show business
The star guests include:
Alma Cogan, Bruce Trent
Harry Locke, Tito Burns
and Eric Barker
The George Mitchell Glee Club
Music directed by Geraldo
and his Concert Orchestra
Written by
Leo Harris and Richard Waring.
Produced by Douglas Moodie
8.30 SUNDAY HALF-HOUR
Community hymn singing from
Dunblane Cathedral, led by the
United Church Choirs of Dunblane
and district, conducted by
J, Fleming Lamb
Introduced' by
the Rev, J. Chalmers Grant,
Minister of Dunblane Cathedral
Organist, J. D. Macrae
To render thanks unto the Lord
(Tunp-, Howard)
Holy, Holy, Holy (Tune, Nicaea)
Immortal, invisible, God only wise
(Tune, Joanna)
Let all the world in every corner sing
(Tune, Luckington)
Father of peace, and God of love!
(Tune, Caithness)
Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass
(Tune, Warwick)
Happy are they, they that love God
(Tune, Binchester)
Lead· us, Heavenly Father, lead us
(Tune, Corinth)
9.0 GRAND HOTEL
Jean Pougnel;
and the Palm Court Orchestra
This week's visiting artist:
Nancy Evans
Selection: The Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan, arr. Godfrey
I kiss your hand, madame
Ralph Erwin, arr. Max Saunders
Doina ........................ , ................ Aspar
Song:
Songs my mother taught me. Dvorak
Waltzes (Der Rosenkavalier)
Richard Strauss, arr. Doebber
Violin:
Lotus Land ..................... Cyril Scott
Schon Rosmarin .................. Kreisler
Songs:
o Lovely Night. ...... Landon Ronald
Ecstasy ......... Walter Morse Rummel
Amina ....................................... Lincke
Smilin' Through .... Pe.tn, arr. Byfield
Selection: Rose Marie ............... Friml
10.0
10.15
Greenwich Time Signal
NEWS
LATE
SLlNDA Y SPECIAL
Christian opinion on some
of the things we talk' about
Speaker, Stanley Maxted
10.30 Teddy Johnson roams
DOWN MELODY LANE
finding songs and melodies in the
highways and by-ways of familiar
music
with the
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Music edited by Edwin Braden
Devised and produced
by Frank Hooper
(BBC recording)
11. 15 Jonah Barrington's
RECORD ALBUM
11.50 Weather Forecast
Highlights
of tomorrow's programme.
and News Summary
12 midnight Big Ben
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Third Programme
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6.0 p.m. CHAMBER MUSIC
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Richard Walton (tr).Impet)
Jean Pougnet (violin)
Thomas Carter (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Quintet in A, for clarinet and string'
quartet (K.581) ...................... Mozart
La Revue de Cuisine, for clarinet,
bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello, and
piano ... ; ..................... : ......... Martinu
(BBC recording)
Martinu's Symphony No.6: Saturday
Alan Frank writes on page 4
6.50 ISRAEL:
A CONFLICT OF RIGHTS
, A discussion between
Clovis Maksoud and David Kessler
The theme of this discussion, in which a
Lebanese Arab and an English Jew state
their cases as simply as they can, is that
both sides in the conflict are right. The
suggested implication is that neither side
can compromise.
(BBCrecording)
Prose readings In interludes between
programmes this week are extracts
from Captain Cook's Voyages, selected
by Guy N. Pocock
7.45 'THE DEVIL AND
DANIEL WEBSTER'
A folk opera in one act
Words by Stephen Vincent Benet'
Music by Douglas Moore
Jabez Stone, a New Hampshire farmer
Scott Joynt
Mary Stone, his wife ..... ;Marion Lowe
Daniel Webster, Secretary of [,tate
Jess Walters
A fiddler (spoken part).Denys Graham
Mr. Scratch, a Boston lawyer
Parry Jones
Justice Hathorne (spoken part)
Allan J eayes
Clerk ............................. Ronald Evans
Voice of Miser Stevens
- Jan van der Gucht
Jurors:
Blackbeard Teach ....... Victor Utting
King Philip ............... Roland Izzard
Simon Girty ................ John Duncan
BBC Chorus
(Chorus, Master, Leslie Woodgate)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
CONDUCTED BY NICHOLAS GOLDSCHMIDT
Producer, C. Denis Freeman
Repetiteur, Vida Harford
Scene: The home of Jabez Stone, Cross
Corners, New Hampshire, in the 1840s
(1ess Walters broadcasts by permission 01
the General Adminislrator, Royal Oper ..
HOl!se Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Another performance: Monday at 9.5
David Harris writes on page 4
8.50 ST. BONIFACE:
APOSTLE TO THE GERMANS
.. Talk by
the Rev. S. C. Carpenter, D.O.
sometime Dean of Exeter
Celebrations are being held throughout
the Church of England today to mark
the twelfth centenary of the death of
St. Boniface. Dr. Carpenter, whose
book The Church in England 597-I.688
was published last year, talks about the
place of Boniface in the great missionary
movement of ,the eighth cemury.
(BBC recording)
followed by an interlude at 9.10
9.15 'HOLIDAY LAND'
('II Paese delle Vacanze')
An idyll by Ugo Betti
Translated from the Italian and
adapted for radio by Henry Reed
Francesca ..................... Gwen Cherrell
Cleofe, her aunt ......... Barbara Couper
Alberto ........................... Oscar Quitak
Ofelia, his aunt ......... Sylvia Coleridge
The Doctor .................. Carleton Hobbs
Noemi ........................ Christine Poll on
Guido Consalvo Benede Nicola
Howieson Culff
Adelaide. a servant ............ Beth Boyd
A Commercial Traveller.Denis Goacher
A Postman ................ Peter Claughton
A Farmer ................ Michael Meacham
PrOduced by Donald McWhinnie
(BBC recording)
(Gwen Cherrell broadcasts by permission
0/ the Directors 0/ the Old Vic Trust;
Michael Meacham is in t Salad Days) at
~he Vaudeville Theacre, London)
To be repeated on Saturday at 6.30
H enT'V Reed writes on page 5
10.45 BACH
French Suites:
No.3, in B minor; No.4, in E flat
played by
Alexander Borovsky (piano)
on gramophone records
11.15 A NOVEL OF TASTE
Arnold Noach talks about the French
eighteenth-century architect Jacques­
Fran

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5.0 p.m. CRICKET·
England ,... South Africa
First Test Match
(continued)
5.15
TENNIS
The Da';is Cup
Great Brit~inv: India
Further commentary
. by Max Robertson
5.30 WORLD OF JAZZ
Collector's Corner
Kenneth Ashen introduces a programme'
of traditional records
for the new collector
Produced by Jack Dabbs
6.0 . CRICKET
England ,..; South Africa
First Test Match
Commentaries by Rex Alston,
John Arlott, and Charles FortuIte;
summaries by Crawford White
6.35 LE MANS
International 24-hour Motor Race
See foot of page
6.45 CAN I J HELP YOU?
Alec Rodger, Director of the
Vocational Guidance Centre, Birkbeck
College, London, describes
some problems brought to him by
people who are unhappy in their
work. He suggests solutions
THE L.C.C. AND BBC LIGHT PROGRAMME PRESENT
~The . Light Programme
Music Festival of 1955
7.0
FROM THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL AT 8.45
BBC C01uert Orchestra' BBC Chorus
(Lead·er, John Sharpe)
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
JO)IC~ Gartside
Semprini
PIANO.
Adele Leigh
SOPRANO
Alexander Young
SOPRANO
Roderick Jones
. TENOR BARITONE
COMPOSER-CONDUCTOR
Philip Green
Greenwich Time Signal
News and
RADIO NEWSREEL
7.25 app. Sport
including
cricket close of. play scores
Third Programme
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6;0 p.m. HUGO WOLF
Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Frederick stone (piano)
Karwoche; Zum neuen Jahr; Schlafendes
Jesuskind; Frage un~ Antwort·
Zitronenfalter im AprIl; Um
Mitternacht; Denk es, 0 Seele!; An
die Geliebte; Er ist's
Seventh of ten recitals of songs by
Hugo Wolf
Next programme, by Peter Pears: June 16
6.30 ' HOLIDAY LAND'
(' II Paese delle Vacanze')
An idyll by Ugo Betti
(Sunday's recorded broadcast)
follow~d by an interlude at 8.0
8.5 ORCHESTRAL
CONCERT
Douglas Moore (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Part 1
Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac
Reizenstein
Symphony No.1, in B flat .. Schumann
8.50 PUBLIC RELATIONS
OF PHILOSOPHY
Talk by A. M. Quinton
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
This talk arises out of a collection ·of
. papers from Analysis, edited by Margaret
Macdonald and published in
February with the title Philosophy and
Analysis.
(BBC recording)
9.10 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Part 2
Horn Concerto No.2, in E flat (K.417)
Mozart
Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony
No. 6) ...................•..•.....••.•.. Martinu
(first performance in this country)
Alan Frank writes on page' 4
10.0 RECENT FINDS
AT UGARIT
by Claude Schaeffer
Ever since 1929 the French Department
of Antiquities has been carrying on excavations
near the modern Syrian town
of Ras Shamra. Ugarit, as the town was
anciently called, is now known to have
been one of the most important centres
of Bronze Age . civilisation;' its palace
one of the biggest and most luxurious
in the ancient Near East. In this talk
Professor Claude Schaeffer, the eminent
French archaeologist, who has been in
charge of the excavation from the- beginning,
tells of the results of last .year's
work. The talk is a shortened version of
Professor Schaeffer's address delivered
yesterday before the Academie des
Inscriptions in Paris.
(BBC recording)
10.20 THE' PARADISO'
of Dante Alighieri
The third cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English
triple rhyme py Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Part 6 (Cantos 28-33)
(Wednesday's recorded broadcast)
11.30 Close Down
CONDUCTOR
Stanford Robinson
Programme introduced by Roy' Williams
PRODUCER: CAMPBELL R1CKETTS
7.30 'THE ARCHERS'
(Omnibus Edition)
. (BBC recording)
8.15 WHAT
DO YOU KNOW?
presents the
Second Round of the Finals
in the nation-wide
general knowledge quiz
Ask Me Another
Three of the finalists who compete
against each other are:
Bill Brown
(representing the West of England)
Charles S. Dunbar
(representing the Midlands)
and Arthur Maddocks
(representing the North o~England)
Chrurman, Franklin Engelmann
Devised and compiled
by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark
. (BBC recording)
To be repeated on Monday at 6.30
(London Home Service)
8.45 The Lighf Programme
MUSIC FESTIV AL'-...
See top of page.
(Adele Leigh broadcasis by permission of
the General Adminis1.rator~ Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Le Mans
INTERNATIONAL
24-Hour Race
3.50 THE START: Commentaries by
Raymond Baxter from the Tribune
de La Presse overLooking the pits
and by Robin Richards from
anothe~ point on the circuit
6.35 Comment;;r~s by Raymond Baxter
and ·Robin Richards
10.15 Commentary by Raymond Baxter
11.40 Commentaries by Raymond Baxter
. and Robin Richards
Further commentaries tomorrow
Programme
ORCHESTRA
Hungarian Rhapsody NO.2
Liszt
PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Scherzo (Concerto Symphonique NO.4)
Litolff
FILM MUSIC
Wagon Trail (Golden Ivory)
Romance (The Magic Bow)
Incidental Music Oohn and Julie)
Philip Green
(conducted by the composer)
SOLOISTS, CHORUS, AND ORCHESTRA
Se1e~tion, Die Fled'!rmaus
Johann Strauss
10.0
10.15
Greenwich Time Signal
NEWS
CRICKET
England v. South Africa
First Test Match
A summary by Rex Alston
and
LE MANS
International 24-hour Motor Race
See foot of page·
10.25 CLUB PICCADILLY
Billy Ternent and. his Orchestra
with Shirley Norman
and the Ternenteers
Jerry Allen and his Trio
Cabaret: Stan stennett
Host, Rikki Fulton
Produced by Mark White
11.40 . LE MANS
International 24-hour Motor Race
See foot of page
11.50 Weather Forecast
Highlights
of tomorrow's programmes
and News Summary
12.0- Big Ben: Close Down