by NIGEL DENNIS Michael Bryant as the ' Prisoner ' in a reading of the novel with music composed by CARL DAVIS
War is a time when little men get the chance to behave badly. Keeping his house in order becomes an obsession for the prisoner who claims to be a cartographer, is suspected of being a spy, and is most certainly a busy and dedicated coward.
His world in the midst of war is a greenhouse, a privileged position for a prisoner. All he wants to do is tend his plants through the long wicked winter. But he is persuaded to take a fatal role in the bickering rivalries between the captors who are themselves half afraid of his monumental fear. So they send him packing.
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by H. B. FORTUIN