16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)

Desmond Briscoe with a fanfare for “A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold”. The book’s full title is The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician from 1883.

Although largely an historical novel the framing is that of incarnations of the same character in different time periods, adding a fantastical element.