The Revelation by Peter Howell , composed at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The fifth in a series of pieces for radio, this drama is taken from the final, most exotic book of the Bible, in which St John records his apocalyptic visions of the defeat of Satan and the coming of the New Heaven and New Earth.
With Derek Jacobi as St John the Divine, Philip Sully as Jesus Christ , and Norman Bird , John Bull , Joe Dunlop , Nicholas Courtenay , John Warner and Geoffrey Whitehead as angels, beasts and elders.
Introduction read by Judi Dench.
BBC Singers, conducted by Barry Rose.
Presented by Mark Russell in conversation with Peter Howell and James Whitboum.