A Radio Play by PETER CRESWELL
Founded on the Novel of the same name by JOSEPH CONRAD and FORD MADOX HUEFFER
The Play produced by PETER CRESWELL
' How John Kemp , Gentleman, of Hayes, in . the County of Kent, went questing a-field in search of Romance ; How he became embroiled with the Free-traders (smugglers) of the Romney Marsh ; How he was forced to flee from the Red-breasts (Bow Street Runners) and took ship to the West Indies; How he adventured among the Separationists and Malcontents of the Island pf Jamaica; How he fought the battle of the Weak against the Strong; How he escaped at peril of his life from the pirates of the Rip Medio , only to find himself cfiarged with piracy before the Marine Court of Hakana, in Cuba, the Ever-
Faithful Island; How by the machinations of his enemies he was delivered over to His Britannic Majesty's Government to stand trial for his life ; How through all the hardships and dangers of his quest, Love led him like a beacon and Romance found him at last.'
' This was Romance ; And in the days to come We shall look backward on the time fulfilled Knowing the richness that we helped to build, Though we, unroving, toiled the slopes of home, Nor learnt the splendid Mutability
Of shifting chance; Unseeing, since too near, Unknowing since we saw, but saw not clear; Then, from the haven of what had to be We shall salute as Gallant in our Days
Dear Custom and the Ordered Ways we trod,
Hailing Romance, those steps that seemed to plod, The Stirring Measure of the Commonplace; Knowing, by paths we did not understand,
We, too, Adventurers, won the Golden Land.'
P.C.