A darkly comic novella byMichel Faber, abridged in five parts by Rosemary Goring and read by Irene MacDougall. 1: "Roger Courage 's Courage Consort were, arguably, the seventh-most renowned serious vocal ensemble in the world. Now they had been granted two weeks' rehearsal time to prepare the unleashing of Pino Fugazza 's fearsome Partitum Mutanteon to an unsuspecting world." Producer David Jackson Young