Re: Personnel involved with Romeo & Juliet

There are these links:

http://www.wcml.org.uk/contents/activists/ewan-maccoll/radio-and-oral-history/the-radio-ballads/

1966 Romeo and Juliet

Not a Radio Ballad but related in terms of radio technique, this was an hour-long modem version of Shakespeare's play, improvised and performed by the London Critics Group. Broadcast by the BBC and produced by Charles Parker.

Songs:
Down the Lane
Friday Night
Juliet's Song
After the Weekend It's Monday
Sweet Thames, Flow Softly
Death of Tim and Wizz

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http://www.peggyseeger.com/about/press/peggy-seeger-long-cv

1966 - Romeo and Juliet - not a radio ballad but related in terms of radio technique, this was an hour-long modern version of Shakespeare's play, improvised and performed by the London Critics Group. Broadcast by the BBC and produced by Charles Parker.

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Aha - it was member's of the Critics Group that performed the 'ballad.

Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critics_Group

"Members of the group at various times included Frankie Armstrong, Bob Blair, Brian Byrne (UK), Helen Campbell (UK), Jim Carroll (UK), Phil Colclough, Aldwyn Cooper, Ted Culver, John Faulkner, Richard Humm, Allen Ives, Sandra Kerr, Paul Lenihan, Pat Mackenzie, Jim O'Connor, Maggie O'Murphy, Charles Parker, Brian Pearson, Michael Rosen, Buff Rosenthal, Susanna Steele, Denis Turner, Jack Warshaw, Terry Yarnell and others who joined for individual Festival of Fools shows."

Discography incl.

Sweet Thames, Flow Softly 1966 Argo ZDA 47 (John Faulkner, Sandra Kerr, Terry Yarnell, Ted Culver and Jim O'Connor)

Review

http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviewsc.html#critics

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And in the dusty archives is even more information - locked out from the rest of us ...

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=romeo+juliet+maccoll

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CJB