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

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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)














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