with Jenni Murray
Serial: Under the Red Robe by STANLEY J. WEYMAN abridged in ten episodes by JACK SINGLETON
Read by Nigel Anthony
When Gil de Berault is arrested for duelling, he is faced with two choices - death, for that is the penalty in Cardinal Richelieu's France, or to carry out an unsavoury spying mission. This swashbuckling tale of romance and derring-do was Woman's Hour's first ever serial in October 1946.
(Music: Saint-Saëns' 'Cypres et
Lauriers', for organ and orchestra) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS