' Partage de Midi ' by Paul Claudel
Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Robert Speaight from a version by Jonathan Griffin
Time: About the year 1910
At noon on the upper deck of a large liner in the middle of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and Ceylon
Among the tombs of a cemetery in Hong Kong. A heavy April afternoon. A year later In the dismantled ball-room on the first floor of a disused ' colonial ' style house overlooking one of the ports of Southern China at a time of insurrection