A dramatic version by E. J. King Bull of the novel by Anthony Quayle
Also taking part: Donald Gray and Michael Hitchman
Production by E. J. King Bull
(A new production of the play originally broadcast in the Third Programme on August 29. 1947)
(Rupert Davies broadcasts by permission of London Film Productions, Ltd.)
'The most singular thing about Palleria is that it exists as an island at all; it might never have done so..... ' One calm morning, several hundred thousand years ago, the earth's crust twitched a little, and through the waters of the great sea which men would one day call the Mediterranean there slowly rose ... the black shoulders of the submerged mountain peak.
'Throughout recorded time ... no comparable piece of rock has inspired such excesses of pride and hatred, has evoked such prodigies of valour in its attack and defence.'