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 wnter who died in 1935 Robert Eddison as Francis of Assisl. 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