Recorded as part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, this is the first of two plays forming "Crimes of Passion", a double-bill of Joe Orton plays (the other being The Ruffian On The Stair) recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of Orton's death, plus an interview with Kenneth Cranham, a close friend of Orton's who played several key roles in his plays.

The Erpingham Camp is Orton's rambunctious farce re-imagining The Bacchae, an ancient Roman play Euripides, with Orton's version set in a 1960s holiday camp. The visitors to the camp begin to rebel against the rule of the camp's ruthless manager Erpingham.