HORROR FEST '22: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
In this specially curated collection for Halloween 2022, we will be presenting at least four radio programs originally aired on BBC radio. For our fourth, another dramatized tale by Ray Bradbury, "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
Composer ..... David Paul Jones
Sound ..... Paul Cargill
Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris
Set in 1960's Illinois this gem of modern Gothic literature is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. These two innocents, both aged 13, (Will is born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after) save the souls of the town (as well as their own). This is a vivid variation on the eternal theme of the fight between Good and Evil. A thrilling, chilling, richly kaleidoscopic sound world ensues; a shimmering mirror maze that reflects your older or younger self, depending on your desires, and a magic carousel that plays Chopin's Funeral March forwards - with each rotation you gain a year, and rotating backwards - you get younger.
Cast:
Will: Theo Gregory
Jim: Joseph Lindsay
Charlie: Henry Goodman
Mr Dark: Kenneth Cranham
Mr Coogar: Gerard McDermott
Lightening rod salesman: Gerard McDermott
Miss Foley: Barbara Barnes
Dust Witch: Buffy Davis
Robert: Taran Stanzler
Young Miss Foley: Amelia Clarkson
Jed: Ethan Brooke
Originally aired 11/04/2011 on BBC Radio
(Obtained from archive dot org.)
