A radio portrait by Peter Cotes based on the book A World Away by Maeve Gilmore
'If man matters, then the highest flights of his mind and his imagination matter. His vision matters, his sense of wonder, his vitality matters. It gives the lie to the nihilists and those who cry Woe in the streets.'
The words of Peake are spoken by Gary Watson and those of his wife by Joan Miller
Narrator Peter Cotes and the voices of William Sleigh and John Bull.
Producer DAVID CAIN
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