大象传媒

One of six brilliant novels written by Agatha Christie under the name of Mary Westmacott. The insatiable hunger of the genius (the giant) will devour everything around him to feed his voracious appetite for art.

Vernon Deyre is lost. He cannot afford to live in the house where he grew up and he鈥檚 in love with Nell, a girl who wants security. He takes a job in his Uncle鈥檚 factory but then experiences a personal epiphany at a classical concert and is determined to become a composer himself. His work is experimental and difficult, using the sounds made by everyday objects or by using traditional instruments in extreme and unusual ways. Through his work he meets the famous opera singer Jane Harding, who encourages him to move to Russia to compose his greatest Opera.

This is the story of his obsessional pursuit of his music, his relationships, the terrors he experiences in the battlefield and his struggle to regain his identity after the First World War - but, most of all, his final understanding that without creation he has no soul.

Cast:
Carl Bowerman/ George Chetwynd ... Tim McMullan
Sebastian Levinne ... Philip Arditti
Vernon Deyre ... Tom Glenister
Josephine Waite ... Lucy Trodd
Nell Vereker ... Hannah Boyde
Jane Harding .. Janis Kelly

By Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott
Adapted by Malcolm McKay.

Original music by Nick Bic芒t
Sound Designer: Leon Chambers

Directed by Annabel Arden
A Catherine Bailey production for 大象传媒 Radio 4