The Beauty from Samos (1955)

Original id: 
6669
Start date: 
1 October 1955
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Reconstruction
Production notes: 
Broadcast on BBC Radio's Third Programme. Joanna Richardson and Patric Dickinson's English translation of Charles Cordier’s reconstruction in French of Menander’s fragmentary play. The broadcast was repeated on the Third on 10 July 1956 in a small Menander festival which was introduced by a talk by Gilbert Murray on 8 July 1956 (see ID 6670).
Media of production: 
Radio
Languages: 
English

Information related to this production

Person Role Notes
Patric Dickinson Translator translated Cordier's text into English
Antony Hopkins Composer
Charles Lefeaux Producer
Joanna Richardson Translator translated Cordier's text into English
Venue Festival Dates Notes
unknown venue (England)
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Letter from Charles Lefeaux to Gilbert Murray Correspondence
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s Thesis library 43, 206

How to cite this production

The Beauty from Samos (1955), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6669 <18 April 2024>