by ROBERT PINGET translated and adapted for radio by Barbara Bray with Robert Eddison and Vivienne Chatterton
Clope is a hermit who lives in a booth surrounded by the hustle and bustle of a large mainline railway station and earns his living as a fortune-teller. Everyone around him is about to start on some great journey, only Clope is convinced that there is no sense in trying to get away : he is the still centre in a world of mad striving. His story is both funny and tragic-a poetic image of the artist in our time.
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Produced by JOHN GIBSON
: second broadcast