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The Dead House

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Yannis Ritsos, one of Greece's most popular and remarkable contemporary poets translated by Nikos Stangos
with Annette Crosbie as the woman and Paul Chapman the voice of the Poet

A writer visits a woman living in a vast empty house. She talks and he listens: but what is truth and what is the fantasy of a disturbed mind? He tries to understand her extraordinary story.
'... a feeling of magic and fear had seized me as if I had been suddenly confronted by the decadence and the fascination of a very ancient civilisation ...'

Contributors

Writer:
Yannis Ritsos
Translator:
Nikos Stangos
Radiophonic music By:
Malcolm Clarke
Producer:
Liane Aukin
Source: Radio Times

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