A serial play to be broadcast in nine weekly instalments with Robert Douglas and Milton Rosmer
Adapted by Jack Inglis from the Novel by Anthony Hope
Music composed by Robert Chignell and Leslie Woodgate , and recorded by the BBC Orchestra (Section C), conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Episode 1—' Concerning the Colour of Men's Hair'
Characters in order of speaking
Production by Leslie Stokes
Anthony Hope 's immortal novel set in romantic Ruritania may well claim to be the father of all those books that have set out to portray the court life, intrigue, romance, plot, and counterplot of life in small Central European countries. ' Ruritanian ' has indeed become a house-hold word synonymous with romantic pomp and thrones three a penny.
In Jack Inglis 's radio version, which is extremely close to the original, you will hear today how, at the end of the nineteenth century, Rudolf Rassendyll , a young Englishman of the ancient family of Burlesdon, came to visit Ruritania, and how, in this small country in the south-east corner of Europe, strange events began to befall him.
An article by Jack Inglis will be found on page 7.