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	[[The Mayfly and the Frog]] is one of the few surviving episodes of the BBC series [[The Wednesday Play]], for which Delia is credited for BBC Radiophonic Archive tape [[TRW 6569]].<ref name=TLL/>		[[The Mayfly and the Frog]] is one of the few surviving episodes of the BBC series [[The Wednesday Play]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060682 ''The Mayfly and the Frog''] on imdb.com</ref> for which Delia is credited for BBC Radiophonic Archive tape [[TRW 6569]].<ref name=TLL/>

	Unfortunately, it seems not to have been blessed with any Delian music<ref>I've listened to the first half and there was nothing but sound effects.</ref>, which fits the [[Radiophonic Database]]'s notes for its tape, dated 1st October 1966, which say "FX:<ref><B>FX</B>: Effects.</ref> Pings, door slams and motors."		Unfortunately, it seems not to have been blessed with any Delian music<ref>I've listened to the first half and there was nothing but sound effects.</ref>, which fits the [[Radiophonic Database]]'s notes for its tape, dated 1st October 1966, which say "FX:<ref><B>FX</B>: Effects.</ref> Pings, door slams and motors."

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[[The Mayfly and the Frog]] is one of the few surviving episodes of the BBC series [[The Wednesday Play]], for which Delia is credited for BBC Radiophonic Archive tape [[TRW 6569]].<ref name=TLL/>

Unfortunately, it seems not to have been blessed with any Delian music<ref>I've listened to the first half and there was nothing but sound effects.</ref>, which fits the [[Radiophonic Database]]'s notes for its tape, dated 1st October 1966, which say "FX:<ref><B>FX</B>: Effects.</ref> Pings, door slams and motors."

The ''Radio Times'' describes the programme:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
John Gielgud stars with Felicity Kendall in tonight's play by Jack Russell: The action begins at a filling station in a Belgravia mews, where an argument develops between two vehicles. They are an improbable contrast; a dirty, ancient, and rusting scooter and a palatial, dazzling Rolls Royce. The Rolls, although meticulously trained in every social nicety, is not used to taking notice of - or avoiding - decrepit two-wheeled vehicles. When the vast limousine knocks the tiny heap of scrap-iron over, it is of no moment to the Rolls' driver or its passenger. But the scooter's owner is in a state of furious indignation. Her headlamp is smashed, she has to reach Dover by dark, and she is broke. So she pursues the Rolls until it disappears sleekly through the gates of a huge Mayfair mansion. Ingeniously defying the amazing expense devoted to keeping intruders out, the girl, vivaciously mobile in jerkin and jeans, gains a determined entry - and finds herself face to face with a millionaire in his bath!
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They are the most unlikely pair to meet anywhere or anywhen; the odd, scruffy, disconcerting girl scarcely owning what she stands up in, and the great tycoon, lord of a thousand companies, Rembrandts by the dozen on his walls, "Old Adam Capitalist in his golden garden". And when they meet here in his most secluded and defended sanctum, Gabriel Quantara soon finds himself in a plight that his money, minions, power, and paintings can do nothing to save him from … The Wednesday Play is delighted to present Sir John Gielgud, making his first appearance in a play specially written for television, as Gabriel Quantara. Felicity Kendall, star of the film ''Shakespeare Wallah'', plays the girl.<ref>''Radio Times'', December 15, 1966.</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

=Credits=
* Producer: [[Chris La Fontaine]]<ref name=TLL/>
* Music: Richard Addinsell. The Radio Times inadvertently attributed [[Guy Woolfenden]] as the party responsible, but later printed an apology (some two weeks later) rectifying the matter.<ref name=startrader/>

=Availability=
* Broadcast on 21st December 1966 from 9:05pm<ref name=TLL/> to 10:15pm<ref name=startrader/> on BBC1.<ref name=TLL/>
* Repeated on July 10th, 1968.<ref name=startrader>[http://www.startrader.co.uk/wed_play/ The Wednesday Play] on startrader.co.uk, [http://web.archive.org/web/20100925192242/http://www.startrader.co.uk/wed_play saved on archive.org]</ref>
* In the BBC Radiophonic Archive on tape [[TRW 6569]]<ref name=TLL>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 6569]].</ref>
* [[File:The Mayfly and the Frog (The Wednesday Play S6E08, BBC, 21st December 1966).torrent]]

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