Overview

This is a new translation, broadcast on BBC Radio, of the Anouilh play which first appeared in 1939. Leocadia was an opera singer who died after three blissful days of love with Prince Albert who has mourned her ever since. His aunt, the duchess, does everything she can to help him and finds Amanda, who bears a striking resemblance to Leocadia, and encourages her to lay Leocadia's ghost which she does with honesty and gentle perseverence.