Audun and the Polar Bear A new play for radio by PAAVO HAAVIKKO translated from the Finnish by DYMPNA CONNOLLY
Music by LIONEL SALTER
A folk tale from the world of Icelandic sagas about the ups and downs of human fortune and the strange ways of human destiny.
Audun. a young man said to be lucky............. NIGEL ANTHONY
Egill. a man who married his future wife's sister, so that his future wife became his wife's sister FRASER KERR
Jofridur. his wife...JAN EDWARDS Helga. Jofridur's sister, who was to have been Egill's wife, and who was older than Jofridur ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Thor. the father of these girls who have got the order of their marriage wrong
HAYDN JONES
Heraldur, King of Norway, who had a quarrel with the King of Denmark
PETER WILLIAMS
Sveinn. King of Denmark, who had a quarrel with the King of Norway .... TIMOTHY BATESON
Aki. a courtier of King Sveinn, who came off badly
TERRY SCULLY
Irish harp played by GRAINNE YEATS
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude