Author: Albee, Edward; MacLeish, Archibald; Shaw, George Bernard; Rattigan, Terence; Ibsen, Henrik;
Title: Earplay 1976/77 Season
Description: Minnesota Public Radio in association with BBC and PBS, 1977. 0 pp. No Binding. This collection of 52 records in fine condition were recorded for the 1976/77 season of Earplay, a radio program broadcast on PBS with the cooperation of the BBC and produced by Minnesota Public Radio. Each program has 2 33 rpm records in sleeves in one of 3 boxes. All plays are contemporary (with the exception of plays by Ibsen and Shaw), written by both established and new playwrights and featuring famous and not-so-famous actors. Also included is a 3-ring binder with title, program listing, content, author, cast, and broadcast clearance for each play, as well as program continuity sheets for all recordings. Included is a 2-sided record of the "promos" (60 seconds each) foreach program. Programs1through 26 are comprised of: Program 1: Listening by Edward Albee starring Irene Worth, Maureen Anderman and James Ray; Program 2: J.B. by Archibald MacLeish starring Robert Lansing; Program 3: Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw starring Alex McCowen and Anna Massey; Program 4: A Visit with John Howard Griffin (a "sound autobiography"); Program 5: Cause Celebre by Sir Terence Rattigan starring Diana Dors; Program 6: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen starring Cara Duff McCormick; Program 7: My Name Is Bird McKai by Anne Leaton; Program 8: The Disagreeable Oyster by Giles Cooper & The Little Black Hole by Alan Gosling; Program 9: The Day John William Fell Down the Stairs and Died by James Nichol; Program 10: Kowalski's Last Chance by Leo Simpson & Tiger by Derek Raby; Program 11: Twenty Years of Twilight by Marian Waldman; Program 12: Mr. Luby's Fear of Heaven by John Mortimer starring John Gielgud as Lewis Luby;Program 13: The Austere Gwendoline Parker Elliott by James Nichol; Program 14: The Old One Two by A. R. Gurney, Jr.; Program 15: Random Moments in a May Garden by James Saunders; Program 16: The Maze by Stewart Farrar; Program 17: The Midnight Mocker by Leo Goldman & Scat Melisma by Kirk Nurock; Program 18: Haywire at Humbleford Flag by Ken Whitmore; Program 19: The Codicil to Mary Purty's Will by James Nichol; Program 20: Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment, Part 1 adapted by Bill Morrison; Program 21: Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment, Part II adapted by Bill Morrison; Program 22: Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment, Part III adapted by Bill Morrison; Program 23: The Grappling Court by David Kranes; Program 24: Under the Loofah Tree by Giles Cooper & Dinosaurs by John Autrobus; Program 25: Trucker (a radio documentary) by Paula Schiller; and Program 26: The Summer of Timothy Once by James Nichol. Extra shipping. Fine.

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