by Frederic Manning
Other parts played by Geoffrey Bond , Hamilton Dyce
Anthony Jacobs , Basil Jones
Preston Lockwood , Frank Tickle and Virginia Winter
Adapted and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
In 1209 or 1210, after much delay and with misgiving, Innocent III granted the young Francesco Bernardone permission to found a religious brotherhood following the rule of absolute poverty. The interview at which this was done and the first adventure of the ' Little Brothers ' as they set out from Rome are portrayed with delicacy by a writer who died in 1935. (A new production of the programme first broadcast in 1947)