A play by Jean Anouilh, translated by Kitty Black, adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes
with Sylvia Syms, Michael Bryant and Robert Eddison

There is a myth of ancient Greece that tells how Eurydice, the beautiful wife of the musician Orpheus, was bitten by a snake and died; and how Orpheus then descended to the Underworld and with his music so charmed the ears of the Judges of the Dead that he obtained permission for Eurydice to follow him to the upper world-on one condition....
Incidental music by JOHN HOTCHKIS
†Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES