by Kay Cicellis
Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark
On August II and 12, 1953, the town of Lixouri in Cephalonia, in the Ionian islands of Greece, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake Three months later Kay Cicellis revisited the town, where she had spent her childhood. The Death of a Town is her imagined impression of the catastrophe and its aftermath as told in the recollections of six of the survivors.
The Storyteller, Yvonne Mitchell
Produced by Peter Duval Smith