by Euripides
Translated by Philip Vellacott
Music by Anthony Bernard
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
Cast in order of speaking and singing:
Incidental music played by the Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, George Deason )
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
Choral music sung by Margaret Barnes (mezzo-soprano) - and the BBC Women's Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) accompanied by the London Chamber Players
Conducted by Anthony Bernard

This play, first performed in Athens about 413 B.C., follows the adventures of Iphigeneia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, after she has escaped being sacrificed to Diana in Aulis to provide the Greeks with a favourable wind for Troy. The goddess gives to her the care of her temple in Taurica (later called the Crimea) where the law is that all strangers cast on those shores shall be sacrificed on her altar. Iphigeneia soon finds herself faced with the terrible duty of sacrificing her own brother Orestes, who has landed with Pylades, his friend. They conspire together and at last escape, carrying away Diana's statue.