by CHRISTOPHER HOPE
A poem for voices which moves back and forth in time among the facts and fictions, often indistinguishable, of South
African life in general and its English-speaking settlers in particular.
It centres on two fictional South African travellers - turbanned huntress Mrs Oribi and the gloomy cafe owner Mr Silvero - and two historical colonial officials. William Hogge and Mostyn Owen , sent out to curb the British expansionist ambitions of Sir Harry Smith. with and Narrator
Producer ROSEMARY HART