! ! ! The Streets of Pompeii (BBC Radio 1970)

The Streets of Pompeii by Henry Reed Produced by Douglas Cleverdon BBC Radio 3 1970 with Flora Robson and Marius Goring. First broadcast in 1952, The Streets of Pompeii was awarded the Italia Prize the following year. This stereo version was first broadcast in 1970. In The Streets of Pompeii, ideas of fecundity and sterility, imagination and pedantry, love and death are woven together through the patterning of the experiences of a dozen Pompeian natives and visitors. Several modes of speech are used; which include, along with colloquial and heightened prose, a formal verse for the elegies of the Cumaean Sibyl and a more relaxed pentameter for the young lovers, Attilio and Francesca. The lovers are given a full-dress sonnet each as a soliloquy at their moment of most intense feeling. These langourous wanderings through the ruins are interrupted by flashbacks to an erupting Vesuvius, bringing to dust the plans and aspirations of the innocent and guilty alike. Like The Lizard in this play, basking in the glowing sun, you should relish this perfect incarnation of radio drama. Its an echo of a golden past. Reed wrote nearly 40 plays for radio, most were broadcast in the 1950s and 1960's on the Third Programme, including the wonderful Hilda Tablet plays. Some of these were re-broadcast in the 1970s, so its possible that someone has recordings of them, please consider uploading and sharing if you have any. The Cast: The Cumaen Sibyl....Flora Robson The Traveller.......Marius Goring Attilio.............Carlo Cura Francesca...........Rosalind Shanks The Lizard..........Carlton Hobbs MacFarlane..........John Laurie MacBride............Frank Duncan Judy................Hilda Kreiseman Walter..............David Spencer Bill................Derek Seaton Margery.............Deborah Dallas The Guide...........Hector Ross The Merchant........Godfrey Kenton his Wife............Kathleen Helm An Old Man..........Malcolm Hayes The Silent Old Gentleman..Carlton Hobbs The Silent Old Lady.......Kathleen Helm Music by Anthony Smith-Masters Producer Douglas Cleverdon. source: tape recording of broadcast material Type : mpeg 1 layer III Bitrate : 128 Mode : stereo Frequency : 44100 Hz Frames : 223035 Length : 01:37:06 Encoder : Gogo (before 3.0) Enjoy and Seed!!

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