La route est dure (auteur inconnu)
   ------Georgia Brown

Back in 1970, Britain's BBC TV aired an adaptation, in thirteen parts, of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy.  It was a superb piece of TV drama, whatever you think of Sartre and his philosophizing.  Each episode was introduced by this song.  The singer is Georgia Brown, a British actress and singer.  The piece seems to have been written by Richard Holmes.

The TV series has sunk without trace, the BBC apparently believing the tapes have no market value, or perhaps just having lost them.

The song lingers on in the memory of those of us who saw the series.  I have been able to find it only on an old, rather scratched 45rpm vinyl disk, which a friend kindly digitized for me.  Another friend, sound engineer Bob Evans, then removed the clicks and crackles.  Many thanks to both!

I have been unable to find any documentation for the song, even a set of lyrics.  I don't know who wrote it, though one website refers to it as "a WW2 French Resistance song."  If anyone knows any more than that, please get in touch with me through the e-address encrypted on my home page.