by Susan Hill
James: "I have to stay here until.... the sun shines and I achieve my moment of grief and hour of distress and cry ... not only for myself. This is my pottery-room."
James, a sick recluse looked after by Randal, is shaken out of his austere existence by a visit from his estranged wife.
(Ian Richardson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
The Cold Country: a new selection of radio plays by Susan Hill: £4.50 from bookshops