{
  "title": "AFTER THE BREAK OF DAY",
  "category": "[RADIO-SCRIPT]",
  "article": "A romantic ghost story that takes its protagonist back into his own haunted and tragic past,\nwritten by William Abney…\n“'You are invited to a Fancy Dress Party at Measham House. Do come if you can. Masks will be\nworn until midnight.”",
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  "chronology": "(RADIO 4)\n[Saturday—2:00-3:00 PM]\nApril 29, 1972\n“After the Break of Day”\n[“…Steve gets an invitation to a fancy dress ball at a country house he\ndoesn’t know. Everyone seems to know him when he gets there,\nespecially a girl called Rose. Memories gradually come back to him and\nhe takes them for granted. He arranges to return to London with Rose\nbut against her wishes leaves her at the house while he goes to get some\npetrol from the farm pump. He finds the pump rusted. A bad\nthunderstorm has started and he cannot find his way back to the house\nso he sleeps in the car. In the morning, he calls at a cottage to ask the\nway, only to find that the house had burned down during a great storm 41\nyears ago and everyone at the party had died.\nPERSONNEL: William Abney (scriptwriter), Bridget Marrow (producer).\nCAST: Betty Baskomb (Mrs. Parsons), Geoffrey Beevers, Carole Boyd (Rene),\nWilliam Fox (Andrew), David Gooderson (Jimmy McNeil), Sheila Grant (Mrs.\nForsdyke), Leslie Heritage, Michael McClain (Steven Miller), S. Clifford Norgate\n(Robert), Alexa Romanes (Rose), Peter Tuddenham (Ben Loker), Pauline Wynn\n(Mary Loker).",
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}