As a tribute to Dame Sybil Thorndike, CB, who died in June aged 93, we are re-broadcasting some of her most outstanding radio performances.

Four of the great scenes from Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw, chosen and introduced by Dame Sybil, who acts her original role in this play which took London by storm in 1924.

with Walter Fitzgerald, Ian McKellen, Clive Morton, Michael Spice, Alan Wheatley

"It's 43 years since Dame Sybil first played Shaw's Saint Joan. Yesterday Dame Sybil was at it again, playing the part of the 19-year-old saint and sounding totally confincing. That's quite an achievement at the age of 42, but at 85 it's just incredible." (Sunday Times, 28 May 1967)

John Foulds's music (composed for the 1924 production) conducted by Alan Paul
Produced and directed by Graham Gauld

(Arsenic and Old Lace: 9 Oct)