The Storytellers
The first of seven dramatised stories
Candide by voltaire translated and adapted by JONATHAN MYERSON
It's a well-known fact that we live in the best of all possible worlds. This, at any rate, remains the unshakeable conviction of Dr Pangloss, a tutor in metaphysicotheologicocosmonigology. whose experience of life might well have led a less charitable man to think differently. So who is his pupil, Candide, to doubt the great man's wisdom?
King of Eldorado/Dervish
Directed by GORDON HOUSE. Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)