by SUSAN HILL with Sean Barrett , Ian Richardson Jon Rollason and Terry Scully That's typical of the lot of you.... Why bother? What's the use? Give in, why don' we? What sort of men are you, for Cod's sake? If that's your attitude why don' we all go outside and lie face down in the snow and die? Why are we bothering at all? Have you asked yourselves that? '
Music by GEOFFREY BURGON Sung by KEVIN SMITH
Mouth organist ALFIE KAHN Producer GUY VAESEN
The second-rate is certainly as common on the air as anywhere else and the first-rate (the truly original, the truly experimental, the truly successful) as rare - though there was an example of it in Susan Hill's marvellous piece The
Cold Country ' (NEW STATESMAN) ... extraordinarily powerful and moving.... a formidable occasion for radio drama.
(THE TIMES)