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on s porn ~--.-~ Berlin: Vico. Hugh Trevor-Ro.Rer: Monboddo 391, 407 Sharp, once a civil servant, looks at politicians 400 Heaney on Lord Dunsany a.nd his love of peat 408 Game. C. B. Macpherson: Cuttmg off the Contment 414 General Amin's Black Mischief ~ Keith Graves describes how he was deported from the friendliest city in Africa A sure sign of a deteriorating regime is when that regime tries to control, not only what its own citizens hear or see, but what the rest of the world hears and sees, of the happenings in the country. It came as no surprise therefore to British newsmen in Kampala to find themselves the victims of President Idi Amin Dada (dada means Big Daddy in his tribal dialect-in Hindi~ the language of many of the Asians he is expelling, it means v11lage thug) and his hatred of criticism. Even before the so-called war with Tan4 zania the signs had been there. We all kne\r that the President was angered by the stories appearing in the British press and on televiSion about his treatment of the Asians. His security men had repeatedly harassed newsmen. All calls to \vere monitored. Don IVlcCullin, the fearless Sunday Times photographer, found himself bullied and chased by the police three days running as he tried to take pictures in the Asian quarters of Kampala. I myself saw the red light when r tried to interview the President after a lunch to welcome home his Olympic team. The BEG, he shouted to the

LOTd- Monboddo, the Scottish sage who be· lieved, before Darwin, that men once had tails: Hugh Trevor-Roper writes in pmise; of him on page 407 - iv

Comus. The masque by John Milton" with the The Little Foxes. original songs and additional music by Henry this play from the and William Lawes, chosen by Basil Lam. _The the lead. It's set . RADIO 3 DRAMA players include Ronald Pickup, Barbara America and Jefford, Robert Harris, Godfrey Kenton and to outwit ·;a~h";th;;r:-b~'ih L'Arlesienne. Alphonse Daudet's L'Arlesienne David March. The production-in stereo--is by emotionaUy. with incidental music by Georges Bizet was R. D. Smith; 11 DecemPer 21 November fa played for the first time on 1 October 1872, Another Part. of the For.est. at the Vaudeville Theatre in Paris. For this OIllwale. J eremy- Sandford has written a new has used the same locale I;lroadcast the original score in Paris was photo­ radio play describing the life of David Oluwale, same characters as in The graphed, and the music will therefore b~ heard a West Indian immigrant settled in Leeds, who time, however, the play is in its original scoring for a theatre orchestra. became a 'Vagrant and drowned in a Leeds years earlier, and shows us how 1 October @ river last year. The play ex.amines Oluwale's little foxes' became so. The Wasps. To mark the centenary of Vaughan life and the various factors which led to his 18 December Williams's birth, a performance of The Wasps death hut also tackles the plight of vagrants of Aristophanes for· which he composed the who sleep rough nightly in English cities. This music for a performance in Greek at Cam­ play was commisioned and produced by BBC bridge in 1909,_ As. well as being a jeu d'esprit Radio Brighton. to suit an undergraduate audience-there is 26 November POETRY much popular music of the period quoted in Hopcraft inw Europe. A specially commis­ the score-it is the first work by Vaughan sioned play from Michael Sadler whose pre­ Williams in which the spirit of folk-song is vious plays, Gulliver's Way and The Bull of La Poeh-y Now. A miscellany of new made wholly manifest. Plata, received much critical -acclaim. In this duced by George and 8 October fa new play he takes an amusing look at Britain's authors themselves. 2 October, 6 November, Radio '3 The Pewers of' Darkness by Leo Tolstoy entry into EUrope. adapted by John McGahem. Reset in the West 28 November The Living Poet. Nicholas Willey is of Ireland in the Fifties, the play deals with The Disintegration of James Cherry by Jeff poet, totally free from fashionable murder, greed and retribution. Wanshel. This play, staged at the Lincoln with a powerful and original talent. 15 October Centre in New York in 1970, presents a picture 12 October, Radio 3 of present·day America painted in the colours The Brother- of the Bride. Neville Smith's of the blackest of black humours. The Rime adaptation of the prize-winning play by Ernst Gielgud's .)"eM". Brunn Olsen tells -hoW a love-affair develops 10 December between a sophisticated rich girl and a fitter's Paid on Both Sirles-is Auden's earliest work of, Ancient the 200th r:::~j:ve.:~a~;p:;~t'~~'I~~i;i;~,~sb1I mate during a wedding reception. arranged and produced in stereo by R. D. 17 Ocio'ber, Radio 4 17 October Smith. with speCially written music by Elisa­ beth Lutyens conducted by Frederick MarshalL '.lI'weUth Night by , with The leading players are Anthony Jacobs and music arranged by Alan Boustead and played by Desmond Dupre (lute). With DorothY Tutin Malcolm Hayes. (Viola), Geraldine :McEwan (Olivia), Stephen 12 December fa Murray (Malvolio), Maurice Denham (Sir Toby), Fallout. David Caute's new play for radio is William Squire (Orsino), John Moffatt (Sir set in the early Fifties. Focused on a security Andrew). Produced by Charles Lefeaux. investigation at an atomic research station, it e (now postponed until 14 January) deals with the question of being a traitor and, more important, the scientist's responsi­ Local Anaesthetic. Local Anaesthetic, the l(itest bility to his own work regardless of outside novel by Gunter Grass to be published in,Eng­ consequences. lish, was inspired by the 'Youth Revolution' 17 December of 1968. It is about the inability of liberal teachers, largely obstructed, by their own ra­ Memoirs of a Sly Pornographer. In his latest tionalisations of past failure, to respond to the play for radio, Rhys Adrian takes us into the young. world of sleezy cinemas and into the fantasies 29 October of a mackintoshed man ·who frequents them. 19 December . Bleats from a Brigbouse Pleasure Ground by David Halliwell. With Leslie Sands, Colin Erik the XIV by Strindberg. This will be the Douglas and Bryan Pringle.• The play is cast first performance of this play in any media in in the form of a series of interviews for the Britain. Erik is King of Sweden-and regarded assistant manager's job at a Yorkshire fair­ by many of his subjects as mad. When the play ground ... exact, touching and often very begins he is in violent disagreement with his funny indeed.' (David Wade, Times.) powerful feudal lords who object in particular to his choice of a commoner as his mistress, 31 October and to his employment of commoners as con­ A Journey to Londen. < ••• a roUicking uncon· fidential secretaries. The struggle between Erik troversial production of an unfinished play by and the nobles provides a powerful and grip' Sir John Vanbrugh done with style and relish ping backcloth against which Strindberg looks in Raymond Raikes's production' (Gillian Rey­ closely at the mind of the king. nolds, Guardian). The broadcast includes Coney 24 December Cibber's ending for the play taken from his Poetry .of William Barnes'.:'~.IPU;'~i~;; 'rhe Nativity. A Ballad'Cantata. The text, based poet had a tremendous 1- comedy The Provok'd Husband. The stars are on early carols and poems, arranged by Terence Barbara Jefford, Charles Gray and Robert time which lasted nearly Tiller, the mllSic arranged and composeci by century. His obituary in the ·Ath;~n,i", Eddison. Elizabeth Poston. (New production of the pro­ 5 November <$ written by Thomas Hardy. gramme first broadcast in 1950.) 27 Notlember, Radio 3 Othellu. A new stereophonic production of the 24 December 0 complete text of Shakespeare's play, with Paul Poetry Now. introduced Scofield as Othello, Nicol Williamson as Iago, Stewart Conn. Ros"iind Shanks as Desdemona, Hannah Gor­ 4 December don as Emilia, Martin Jarvis as Cassio and RADI04 DRAMA The Waste Land. Peter Egan as Roderigo. for broadcasting by 12 Nm'ember €I Uncle Yanya. A revival of Raymond Raikes's , adapting' consists Artist Dese.ending a Staircase. This play was production starring Adrienne Coni as Sonia, voices for thhee ~chara'''':r' adding the commissioned from Tom Stoppard, author of Norman Wool and as Dr Astrov and Anthony implied in .;::'.. ,,- .,a,:. 'C· Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Jumpers­ Jacobs as Uncle VanY3. currently running at the National Theatre-as 22 October 23 December, part of a European commissioning scheme. This British broadcast will be the first of The BrOWning Version. The schoolboy Taplo'll many pToductions in various languages to be meant well when he gave 1\-Ir Crocker-Harris a transmitted in a number of European countries. copy of The Browning Version to mark the The play, a comedy, deals with three old artists, master's retirement from school. But why did one of whom, at the outset of the play is 'the Crock' blub? Zulu Poems. Dennis Duerden ~.ssumed to have been murdered. We go back :3 November tion from lIazisi Kunene's in their lives to when they were young 'and A Slight Ache. Vivien i\tlerchant and Michael and read in Zulu, by the then return to the present when the problem Hordern in 's play about a lations, also by Kunene, of the death has been solved. married couple on a perrect summer day. Ngakane. 14 November 24 November 28 December, Radio 3 iv The Listener 28 September 1972 Comus. The masque by John Milton, with the original songs- and additional music by -Henry RADIO 3 DRAMA and William Lawes, chosen by Basil Lam. The players include Ronald Pickup, Barbara Jefford, Robert Harris, Godfrey Kenton and L'Adesienne. Alphonse Daudct's L'Arlesienne David March. The prOduction-in stereo-is by with incidental music by Georges Bizet was R. D. Smith. played for the first time on 1 October 1872, 21 November 0 at the Vaudeville Theatre in Paris. For this Oluwale. Jeremy. Sandford has written a ne,w Anotli~r Part of- the Forest. lJroadcast the oi'iginal score in Paris was photo~ radio play describing the life of David Oluwale, has used the same locale s~me characters as in The graphed, and the music will therefore be heard a West Indian immigrant settled in Leeds, who in its original seoring for a theatre orchestra. became a vagrant and drowned in _a Leeds ttme, however, the play is set l'Octooer @ years earlier, and shows us how river last year. The play examines Oluwale's little foxes' became so. The Wasps. To mark the centenary of Vaughan life and the various factors which led to his IS December Williams's birth, a performance of The Wasps death but also tackles the plight of vagrants of Aristophanes for -which he composed the who sleep rough nightly in English cities. This music for a performance in Greek at Cam­ play was commisioned and produced by BBC .bridge in 1909. As. well as being a jeu d'esprit Radio Brighton. to suit an undergraduate audience-there is 26 November POETRY much popular music of the period quoted in Hopcraft into Europe. A specially commis· the score-it is the first work by Vaughan sioned play from Michael Sadler whose pre· Williams in which the spirit of folk-song is vious plays, Gulliver's Way and The Bull oj La Poetry Now. A miscellany ,of new made wholly manifest. Plata, received much critical acclaim. In this duced by George MacBeth and S Octobel' " new play he takes an amusing look at Britain's authors themselves. The Powers of - Darkness by Leo Tolstoy entry into Europe. 2 October, 6 November, Radio 3 28 November adapted by John McGahern. Reset in the West The Living Poet. Nicholas Willey of Ireland in the Fifties, the play deals with The DiSintegration of James Cherry by Jeff poet, totally free from fashionable murder, greed and retribution. Wanshel. This play, staged at the Lincoln with a powerful and original talent.. 15 October Centre in New York in 1970, presents a picture 12 October, Radio 3 The Brother, of the Bride. Neville Smith's of present·day America painted in the colours adaptation of the prize-winning play by Ernst of the blackest of black humours. The Rime of the Brunn Olsen tells, how a love-affair develops 10 December Gielgud's famous between a sophisticated rich girl and a fitter's Paid on Both Sides-is Auden's earliest work , Ancient Mariner' is re'pe,rted arranged and produced in stereo by R. D. of the 200th anniversary mate during a wedding reception. 17 October, Radio 4 17 October Smith, with specially written music by Elisa· by William Shakespeare, with beth Lutyens conducted by Frederick Marshall. music arranged by Alan Boustead and played The leading players are Anthony Jacobs and by Desmond Dupre (lute). With Dorothy Tutin Malcolm Hayes. (Viola), Geraldine McEwan (Olivia), Stephen 12 December CD Murray (Malvolio), Maurice Denham (Sir Toby), Fallout. David Caute's new play for radio is William Squire (Orsino), John Moffatt (Sir set in the early Fifties. Focused on a security Andrew). Produced by Charles Lefeaux. investigation at an atomic research station, it CD (now postponed until 14 January) deals with the question of bein« a traitor and, more important, the scientisfs responsi­ Local Anaesthetic. Local Anaesthetic, the l~test bility to his Own work regardless of outside novel by Gunter Grass to be published in Eng· consequences. lish, was inspired by the 'Youth Revolution' 17 December of 1968. It is about the inability of liberal teachers, largely obstructed by their own ra­ MemOirs of a Sly Porn!lgrapher. In his latest tionalisations of past failure, to respond to the play for radio, Rhys Adrian takes us into the young. world of sleezy cinemas and into the fantasies 29 October of a mackintoshed man· who frequents them. 19 December . Bleats from a Brighouse Pleasure Ground by David Halliwell. With Leslie Sands, ,Colin Erik th'e XIV by Strindberg. This will be the Douglas and Bryan Pringle. 'The play is cast first performance of this play in any media in in the form of a series of interviews for the Britain. Erik is King of Sweden-and regarded assistant manager's job at _a Yorkshire fair­ by many of his subjects as mad. When the play ground . . ._ exact, touching and often very begins he is in violent disagreement with his funny indeed.' (David Wade, Times.) powerful feudal lords who object in particular 31 October to his choice of a commoner as his mistress. and to his employment of commoners as con· A Journey to London. ' ... a rolIicking uncon· fidential secretaries. The struggle between Erik troversial production of an unfinished play by a':ld the nobles provides a powerful and grip' Sir John Vanbrugh done with style and relish pmg backcloth against which Strindberg looks in Raymond Raikes's production' (GUlian Rey­ closely at th~ mind of the king. nolds, Gual'dian). The broadcast includes Colley 24 December . Cibber's ending for the play taken from his comedy The Provok'd Husband. The stars are The Nativity. A Ballad Cantata. The text, based on early carols and poems, arranged by Terence Barbara Jefford. Charles Gray and Robert Tiller, the music arranged and composed by Eddison. Elizabeth Poston. (New prodUction of the pro· 5 November @ gramme first broadcast in 1950.) Othello. A new stereophonic production of the 24 -December " complete text of Shakespeare's play, with Paul Scofield as Othello, Nicol Williamson as Iago, Ros ... lind Shanks as Desdemona, Hannah Gor­ don as Emilia, Martin Jarvis as Cassio and RADI04 DRAMA Peter Egan as Roderigo. The 12 November 0 for Uncle Vanya. A revival of Raymond Raikes's 'adapting' Artist Descending a Staircase. This play was production starring Adrienne Corri as Sonia, voices for commissioned from Tom Stoppard, author of adding the Norman Wooland as Dr Astrov and Anthony implied in .,,:_-~c_;;, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Jumpers­ Jacobs as Uncle Vanya. ,--,,-- currently running at the National Theatre-as 22 October 23 December, part of a European commissioning scheme. This British broadcast will be the first of The Browning Version. The schoolboy Taplow many productions in various languages to be meant well when he gaYe Mr Crocker·Harris a transmitted in a number of European countries. copy of The Brownmg Version to mark the The play, a comedy, deals with three old artists, master's retirement from school. But why did one of whom, at the outset of the play is , the Crock' blub? 3_November Zulu Poems. Dennis Duerden assumed to have been murdered. We go back tiou- from iV[azisi !<'1~'m"'s.!,:~: in their lives to when they were young ·and A Slight Ache. ViVien lI.ferchant and Michael and read in Zulu, then return to the present when the problem Hordern in Harold Pinter's play about a lations, also by of the death has been solved. married couple on a perfect summer day. Ngakane. 14 November 24 November 28 December, Radio 3