The Eternal Joan

The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Tonight, the Eternal Joan, the story of Jean-Dartres, as provided by historians, novelists, and playwrights of different nationalities and points of view, narrated on tape by Louis Cronenberger, author, playwright, and critic, and dramatized by Henry E. Fritch, with Elspeth Eric as Joan.

We need Margaret to see you. She's grateful for her. All he's saying, Lord God, deliver mercy on her. Burn the way to death, to the way. But she's in the day. One or up, hold your hand.

Let's get it over. To the end of the hetateek. Hey, why, for the cast of honor.

The master general. Oh, wait, step it. Hey, you see what it says? Oh, oh, wait. Honor, cat. Heratic, relapsed, apostate. I dollar her. We are burning a saint. This was the old market square in the French city of Rouen on the morning of the 30th of May 1431.

The occasion was the burning of a young peasant girl, not much past her 19th birthday. Her name was Jeanette. Her family name was Darn. without a apostrophe, then with one, after Joan had got her family in noble.

We now know her as John Dark or in the English equivalent, Joan of Arc. Joan died a fearful death on that pleasant May morning more than five centuries ago. She was tied to a wooden stake standing on a pile of kindling and firewood and slowly charmed.

She had first been excommunicated by her church. Every having seen and weighed all there is to see and weigh, have said and decreed that in the simulation of your revelations and apparitions you have been pernicious, seductive, presumptuous of light belief, rash, superstitious, a witch, a blasphemer of God, a despiser of Him in his sacraments, a prevaricator of the King.