The Crystal World

THE CRYSTAL WORLD The West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most men.flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot .;nderstand. But some, daaled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dream-n'orld forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a cr!,stal cross, a gunman searches for his wife, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise ... 4hrs S7mins CLIFFORD NORGATE Clifford Norgate began his career at Stratford with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid '60s. ln 1969 he jotned the BE8 Radio Drama Repegory Company and, apart from a short spell with the Prospect Theatre Company in 1972, has confined himself exclusively to radio and all other aspects of the sound medium. He has also recorded J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World as an Audio Book.