by the American composer JOHN PHILIP SOUSA dramatised for radio by LIANE AUKIN with Sandor Eles as Angelo Diotti
Violin music arranged and played by Yossi Zivoni
'This is no ordinary violin - this string, the G, Is the string of pity; the D, the string of hope; the A, the string of love; the E gives forth the sound of joy - and the fifth string is the string of death. He who plays on it dies at once.'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL