A dramatic poem for broadcasting
Written by Henry Treece
Produced by Robert Gittings
Other parts played by Susan Richards, Frank Atkinson, Charles Lefeaux, Eric Lugg.Arthur Ridley
Music composed by Grace Williams played by the string section of the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
(Andrew Cruickshank broadcasts by permission of Maurice Ostrer)
' Britain js a dark island.' The story of the Belgic king, Caratacus-his fruitless campaigns against the Roman invasion of Britain under the Emperor Claudius, and his lonely exile as a distinguished prisoner in Rome-Is a symbol of the individual overcome by the forces of efficient materially organised life, and one that has many imaginative parallels with the present time