(' Les Loups') by Romain Rolland
Translated by John Holmstrom
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced by R. D. Smith
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Peter Carver , Peter Claughton and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The date is 1793. The city of Mainz. held by the French Citizens' Army, is besieged by Prussian forces: the great hall of the Hotel du Roi d'Angleterre is serving at staff headquarters to the National Convention, and the Republican officers are in council.
(Leo McKern is in ' The Queen and the Rebels ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
at 9.10
Peter Forster writes on page 6 followed by an interlude at 4.30