by Albert Camus.
Dramatised by Guy Meredith
with Ronald Pickup as Rieux, John Shrapnel as Tarrou, Clive Merrison as Rambert, Maurice Denham as Grand, Alfred Burke as Fr Panaloux, Brian Glover as Cottard, Stuart Organ as Dr Richard.

Considered by many to be Camus's finest book, "La peste" is about the outbreak of plague in a French port on the Algerian coast in the late 1940s. The devastating effect on the population is seen through the eyes of three characters: the local doctor, a young Parisian journalist, and a man of mystery in search of peace.

(Clive Merrison is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Brian Glover is in "La Cage aux Folles" at the London Palladium)
(Hear This! page 23)