A portrait of the poet and translator Arthur Waley, compiled and narrated by Francis Watson with comments from Igot Anrep, Carmen Blacker, H.C. Chang, Kenneth Clark, Vera and Juliet Compton-Burnett, William Empson, Basil Cray, Milein Cosman Keller, Naomi Lewis, Raymond Mortimer, John Pilcher, Peter Quennell, Jean Stewart-Wallace, Alison Waley and Daniel Waley and the recorded voices of Jerome Chen, Roy Fuller and Arthur Waley
Readings in English by Karin Fernald, John Moffatt and Gladys Spencer, in Chinese by Shui Chien Tung and in Japanese by Yukiko Maeda. Flute Music by Keith Thompson