East of the Sun and West of the Moon

**** This programme was suggested by Jenny Bayliss as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****

Coronation Street's Helen Worth and Martin Jarvis star in a Norwegian fairy tale.

A polar bear s really a bewitched prince...

Dramatised by Louis MacNeice

Helga .... Helen Worth
Bear Prince / East Wind / South Wind .... Martin Jarvis
Mother .... Victoria Hardcastle
Father / West Wind / North Wind .... Christopher Godwin
Halvor .... Tony Robinson
Stepmother .... Rosalie Williams
Longnose .... Vikki Chambers
First / Second / Third crone .... Kathleen Helme
Prisoner / Parrot ... Charles Cookson

Music composed by Anthea Gomez and sung by Sally Jones

Directed by Alfred Bradley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1983.

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