{
  "title": "DARK TALES",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "This short-run BBC series did ninety-minute versions of two 19th century classics of the\nsupernatural, Alexander Pushkin’s “The Queen Of Spades” and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, plus\none new script, “The Shroud.”",
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  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "DARK TALES (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)\n[???day—10:15-11:45 PM]\nMarch 15, 1997\n“The Beetle”\n[“…MP Paul Lessingham, a handsome man of wealth, talent and\nambition, has a strange and disturbing past which threatens to destroy\nhim…”]\nSCRIPT: Roger Danes (adapted from the novel by Richard Marsh).\nPERSONNEL: Marion Nancarrow (producer).\nCAST: Sean Baker, Hugh Dickson, Robert Harper, Alex Lowe, Janet Maw, Gerard\nMcDermott, Ioan Meredith, Tracy Oberman, Chris Pavlo, Alison Pettitt,  Linda\nPolan, Christopher Scott, Stephen Thorne.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nMarch 22, 1997\n“The Shroud”\n[“…Robert Forrest’s play is set in a murky underworld of crime and\nreligious extremism. Detective Inspector Quinlan follows a trail of\ncorpses that have one strange thing in common—they are all linked to the\nShroud of Turin…”]\nSCRIPT: Robert Forrest.\nPERSONNEL: Patrick Rayner (producer).\nCAST: James Bryce, Sheila Donald, Kern Falconer, Russell Hunter, Cara Kelly,\nFinlay McLean, Sandy Neilson, John Ramage, Muriel Romanes, Douglas Russell,\nFinlay Welsh.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nMarch 29, 1997\n“The Queen of Spades” (Alexander Pushkin)\n[“…It is every gambler’s dream: the secret of three cards that always win.\nLise is gambling for a lover, and Hermann wants the money—but how to\nget the secret?...”]\nSCRIPT: Michelene Wandor (adapted from the story by Alexander Pushkin).\nPERSONNEL: Janet Whitaker (producer).\nCAST: Sean Baker, Hugh Dickson, Carolyn Jones, Moira Lister, Alex Lowe, Chris\nPavlo, Alison Pettitt, Amanda Root, Christopher Scott, Kim Wall, Greg Wise.\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}