CURIOUS, IF TRUE
[RADIO-SERIES]
This sub-series of the BBC program Afternoon Play dramtized five stories of mystery and the
supernatural by Victorian authoress Elizabeth Gaskell.
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: Radio 4, London (BBC).
DURATION: October 19-23, 1998.
PERSONNEL: Nigel Bryant (director), Sally Hedges (scriptwriter).
CASTS: Adjoa Andoh, Sandra Berkin, Carolyn Backhouse, Janet Dale, Stella Gonet, Kathryn
Hunt, Michael Lumsden, Peter Meakin, Mary Jo Randle, Elizabeth Spriggs, Angela Thorne, Kim
Wall.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: The complete sub-series of 5 broadcasts.
[Program log]
AFTERNOON PLAY—“CURIOUS, IF TRUE” (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[Monday-Friday—2:15-3:00 PM]
October 19, 1998 “The Squire’s Story”
[“…Mr. Higgins appears every inch the gentleman. But his strange
manners—not to mention a tendency to disappear—suggest a less
ordinary source for his comfortable lifestyle…”]
October 20, 1998 “The Crooked Branch”
[“…Farmers Nathan and Hester Huntroyd shower love and money on
their handsome son Benjamin. But he has ambitions above their humble
station, and the result is unexpected, to say the least…”]
October 21, 1998 “The Poor Clare”
[“…A young lawyer investigating the heir to a substantial fortune is
drawn towards a young woman haunted by a mother’s curse…”]
October 22, 1998 “Lois the Witch”
[“…A Warwickshire girl, newly arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, finds
herself drawn into a Puritan family’s world of visions, malice and,
apparently, demonic possession…”]
October 23, 1998 “The Grey Woman”
[“…A miller’s daughter marries a nobleman. However, this is no fairy tale
but the beginning of a terrifying adventure…”]
THE CURSE OF THE RECKAVILES
[NOVEL; RADIO-SERIAL]
[The Brooklyn Citizen] “In ‘The Curse of the Reckaviles’ Masterman shows he is versatile. His
latest deals not alone with mystery, but is a throwback to the Gothic romance…strongly
reminiscent of Mrs. Radcliffe’s ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’ and Walpole’s ‘Castle of Otranto’.”
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: WABC, New York City, New York (CBS).
DURATION: ????, 1932.
PERSONNEL:
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
[Program log]
ENO CRIME CLUB (WABC, NEW YORK)
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???? ??, 1932 “The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 1]
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???? ??, 1932 “The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 2]
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