4-' The Jesters of the Lord by Frederic Manning
Adapted and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
In 1209 or 1210, after much delay and with misgiving, Innocent III granted the young Francesco Bernardone permission to found a religious brotherhood following the rule of absolute poverty The interview at which this was done and the first adventure of the ' little brothers ' as they set out from Rome are portrayed with great delicacy by a writer who died in 1935
Robert Eddison as Francis of Asslsl, and Abraham Sofaer as the Pope. Other parts played by Anne Cullen , Graham Doody , Anthony Jacobs , Basil Jones , Preston Lockwood. Ivan Samson , and Alexander Sarner