The General of the Dead Army dramatised by FREDERICK BRADNUM from the Albaniannovelby ISMAlLKADARE translated by DEREK COLTMAN
'Like a proud and solitary bird you will fly over those silent and tragic mountains in order to wrest our poor young men from their jagged rocky grip.'
This ironic and macabre comedy is based on a true incident when a General of one of the armies which invaded Albania during the Second World War returned to collect the bodies of the soldiers who died there. with and With ERIC ALLEN , DIANA BISHOP SAM DASTOR , FRASER KERR
SION PROBERT , HILDA SCHRODER and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Incidental music composed and directed by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT with JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin) KEITH PUDDY (clarinet)
JOHN R. MITCHELL (percussion) Producer IAN COTTERELL
(Repeated: next Sunday, 2.30)