Herbert George Wells, Laurence Olivier, Divine Art/Heritage Media

The Country of the Blind

Audiobook (Divine Art/Heritage Media July 24, 2015) , Original recording

Laurence Olivier plays Nunez, a mountaineer in Ecuador, in the adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic short story The Country of the Blind, first published in 1904 in The Strand Magazine. One day, Nunez falls into a lost land where all of the inhabitants are blind.

This is one of the episodes of "Theater Royal", the only radio series in which Olivier starred and was first broadcast in 1952.