Fifth Business By Robertson Davies

SANWAL CBC

(4.9 stars; 4 reviews)

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous.  Fifth Business  stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. ( From New Canadian Library ) CBC 1980

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.