{
  "title": "A NIGHT WITH A VAMPIRE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "A BBC production… “David Tennant reads five disturbing Victorian Vampire stories.”\nBBC: “Last year in the first series we concentrated on Victorian Vampire output but in these five\ntales we enter the 20tth Century and introduce stories with a little twist from the UK and the\nUSA.”",
  "origination": "Radio 4, London (BBC).\n[NOTE: “A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.”]",
  "duration": "November 22-26, 2010 (first series), November 28-",
  "personnel": "Clive Brill (producer). David Tennant (reader).\nA NIGHT WITH A VAMPIRE (RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[Monday-Friday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nNovember 22, 2010\n[1] “Dead Persons in Hungary”\n[BBC RADIO: “…David Tennant reads Antoine Calmet’s eye witness\naccounts of real vampires… Antoine Augustin Calmet published an\napparently serious anthropological history of the Vampire throughout\nEurope in the early 19 century called ‘The Phantom World.’ All the people\nhe spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account\ntherefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the\nflights of Vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age…”\nNovember 23, 2010\n[2] “The Family of the Vourdolak”\n[BBC RADIO: “…Leo Tolstoy’s lesser known brother [Alexis] has written\nthis compelling story about a patriarch who sets off on a mysterious\nmission but fears he may come back a Vampire. If he should return to\ntheir village after 10 days—he begs his family to deny him access and\nplunge a stake through his heart…”]\nNovember 24, 2010\n[3] “The Horla”\n[BBC RADIO: “…After an unusual Brazilian ship enters the harbour—our\nhero suddenly begins to feel unwell, and starts to have feverish and\ndisturbing visions. Only too late does he discovers the demonic nature of\nthe South American ship’s cargo…”]\nNovember 25, 2010\n[4] “Luella Miller”\n[BBC RADIO: “…Luella Miller seems incapable of surviving on her own—\nso she calls on friends, relatives and lovers to help her. And they all die—\none by one—until there is no one left to lift a finger to assist this most\ndemanding of women. An unusual tale—set in small town America…\nWritten by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman…”]\nNovember 26, 2010\n[5] “Clarimonde”\n[BBC RADIO: “…As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest\nhis eyes glance to heaven—and sees leaning over the sanctuary railing—a\nyoung woman of extraordinary beauty. And so begins a sensational\nstruggle for his soul… Written by Theophile Gautier…”]\nBOOK AT BEDTIME—“A NIGHT WITH A VAMPIRE 2” (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)\n[Monday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nNovember 28, 2011\n“The Lady of the House of Love”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…This wonderful retake on the Sleeping Beauty story first\nappeared in [Angela] Carter’s 1979 volume ‘The Bloody Chamber.’ A\nvirginal English soldier, travelling through Romania by bicycle, finds\nhimself in a deserted village. He comes across a mansion inhabited by a\nvampiress who survives by enticing young men into her bedroom and\nfeeding on them. She intends to feed on the young soldier but his purity\nand virginity have a curious effect on her…”]\n[OG-NOTE: Carter based the story on her 1976 BBC Radio 3 play, “Vampirella.”]\n[Tuesday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nNovember 29, 2011\n“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…written by Fritz Lieber… This 1949 story has exerted its\ngrip on many an imagination and has been filmed several times. It\nconcentrates on the magnetic power of the Vampire and—in this case—\nthe utterly captivating and inescapable lure of a Vampiress-cum-glamour\nmodel…”]\n[Wednesday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nNovember 30, 2011\n“Bewitched”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…written by Edith Wharton… A tale of Vampire\npossession written in 1925. Saul Rutledge had a girlfriend before he\nmarried his current wife. Unfortunately, he still slips at night to see her.\nEven though she died several years ago…”]\n[Thursday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nDecember 1, 2011\n“Drink My Blood”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…Written in 1951 this is an unusually dark comic twist on\nthe Vampire tale about a young pasty-faced school kid, Jules, whose only\nambition in life is to become a Vampire. But will his dreams come true?\nFrom Richard Matheson, author of ‘I am Legend’…”\n[Friday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nDecember 2, 2011\n“A Lot of Mince Pies”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…[Robert] Swindells is a British author known mainly for\nhis children’s books and indeed, this tale first appeared in a collection of\nhaunted tales for the young adult. But it has a macabre and chilling\nundertone—set at Xmas and focussing on a group of carolers who visit\nthe same cottage every year—and receive a special treat in return…”]\nDavid Tennant\nNIGHTMARE (3AW, MELBOURNE)\n[Thursday—8:45-9:00 PM]\nAugust 8, 1953\n(referenced in Melbourne Age)\nNIGHTMARE\nApril 21, 1954\n“The Sky Hook”\n[JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE: “…Looking for sky hooks is a gag from way\nback, but being involved with ‘The Sky Hook’ is unlike any joke. Peter\nLorre tells this story tonight…”]",
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