Radio diary

Press, 16 October 1989, Page 11

Radio diary

By JAMES HOMES Playwright Bruce Thomson gives a slightly different view of Katherine Mansfield in “Love and Mushrooms,” The Monday Play, Concert Programme, 9 this evening. A literary dinner party in Cornwall in 1916. Ron Mikalsen produced this comedy for RNZ. Seventeenth-century English scholar Robert Burton, in his only important work, viewed the world as “vertiginous and lunatic.” So what has changed? Frank Muir examines Burton’s The Ana-

tomy of Melancholy on National Radio at 8.05 this evening. Norman Shelly is Burton in this far-from-melancholic 8.8. C. production. Don’t miss. Conductor Roger Norrington is involved in the movement to perform classical music in the way the great composers intended. The Norrington Experience, National Radio, 8.05 tomorrow evening, tells about the man and how his research gives today's listeners the original sound of the classics.

If you are into musicals make sure you listen to On Broadway, Plains FM, 10 tomorrow evening. Jaz plays music from the shows and chats about local show business. Early nineteenth-cen-tury Russia is seen through the eyes of the snobbish, name-dropping Marchioness of Londonderry in Sables and Vermin, National Radio, 8.05 Wednesday evening. Impressions of Imperial Russia from other visitors from Britain as well as from the Marchioness.