THE DARKER SIDE OF THE BORDER
[RADIO-SERIES]
The BBC presented this “series of three Scottish 19thth-century tales of terror and mystery,
dramatized by Marty Ross.”
[WIKIPEDIA] “Hogg’s story ‘The Brownie of the Black Haggs’ was dramatized for BBC radio 4
in 2003 by Scottish playwright Marty Ross as part of his ‘Darker Side of the Border’ series. More
recently Ross returned to the villain of that story, Merodach, making him the villain of a Doctor
Who audiobook, Night’s Black Agents (Big Finish Productions, 2010), in which this demonic
figure assumes the pose of a Minister of the Kirk.”
Broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 12:00am Monday 18th January 2010.”
[CHRONOLOGY]
THE DARKER SIDE OF THE BORDER (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)
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April 24, 2003 “The Captain of the Polestar”
[BBC RADIO: “…A young doctor sails on a whaling ship…”]
SCRIPT: Marty Ross (adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
PERSONNEL: Bruce Young (director).
EXTANT RECORDING
May 2, 2003 “Olalla”
[BBC RADIO: “…Robert Louis Stevenson’s mysterious tale of a soldier who
falls in love while convalescing…”]
SCRIPT: Marty Ross (adapted from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson).
PERSONNEL: Bruce Young (director).
EXTANT RECORDING
May 8, 2003 “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”
[BBC RADIO: “…Bossy Lady Wheelhope becomes strangely obsessed with
a mysterious stranger…”]
SCRIPT: Marty Ross (adapted from the story by James Hogg).
PERSONNEL: Bruce Young (director).
CAST: Irene Macdougall, et al.
EXTANT RECORDING