A fable by William Golding Produced by Peter Duval Smith with Michael Bates. Ronald Sidney
Leonard Williams , Stanley Beard
Peter Neil , Wyndham Milligan and Anthony Woodruff
Incidents music by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark
To the court of one of the Caesars at about the beginning of the third century after Christ comes a genius from Alexandria with three inventions which he offers to the Emperor. This fable tells of what the first two inventions did-but what of the third?
