The Courts Of The Morning by John Buchan
Dramatised by Guy Slater.
Directed by Patrick Rayner.
BBC Radio 4 29/01/1994 SNT
First published in 1929, The Courts of the Morning was John Buchan's fifteenth novel. Several of the author's travelling band of players make a welcome return in this story of revolutionary politics set in the fictional South American republic of Olifa. Characters include such familiar names as Sandy Arbuthnot (now Lord Clanroyden), John S Blenkiron, Archie Roylance and Geordie Hamilton.
Olifa, overlooking the Pacific and bounded in the east by a range of mountains, is an apparently prosperous and peaceful country. Its capital, Olifa City, seems to offer the perfect blend of Old World refinement and New World exoticism for honeymooners Sir Archie Roylance and his wife Janet.However, behind this respectable façade, a sinister force is at work in the province of the Gran Seco (or 'Great Thirst'), a copper-mining district to the north of the capital. The lucrative mining concern is the personal fiefdom of the Gran Seco's Gobernador, Senor Castor. At once charming and sinister, Castor is clearly the power behind the Olifa throne..................
Starring: Ian McDiarmid & Fiona Francis.
source: tape recording of broadcast material
Type : mpeg 1 layer III
Bitrate : 128
Mode : stereo
Frequency : 44100 Hz
Frames : 207374
Length : 01:30:17
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