Vintage BBC Radio Horror: The Slide, Night of the Wolf & Dark

Synopsis

A trio of terrifying radio tales starring Roger Delgado, Vincent Price and Honor BlackmanAuthor, playwright and TV producer Victor Pemberton was probably best known as a script editor and writer for Doctor Who, and as the inventor of the Doctor's trademark sonic screwdriver. But he also created numerous dramas for radio, among them the three cult classics included here.The Slide - In the Kent new town of Redlow, the residents are shocked by a sudden earthquake. But a worse subterranean threat is still to emerge. When a torrent of mud oozes from the fissure and the local wildlife begins to die, expert seismologist Professor Gomez is called in. His analysis reveals the awful truth: the mud is sentient, intelligent - and lethal... Roger Delgado and Maurice Denham star in this thrilling seven-part sci-fi serial.Night of the Wolf - March, 1883, and a monster is on the loose in the East Anglian Fens... Concerned about his missing son, Robert, Judge Mathew Deacon travels from Pennysylvania to Cambridge to find out what has become of him. His inquiries lead him to the remote Northcott Manor, deep in the marsh country, where he finds a family hiding dark secrets - and comes face to face with a werewolf... This Gothic horror play stars Vincent Price and Coral Browne.Dark- Virginia's lover was murdered and her husband hanged. Then, years later, inexplicable events occur in the room where the murder took place. Summoned to investigate, medium Simon Elliott becomes possessed by people from the past. Can the dead really return to exert control over the living? Honor Blackman, Bessie Love and Nigel Anthony star in this suspenseful paranormal thriller.Produced by John TydemanThe SlideProfessor Josef Gomez - Roger DelgadoHugh Deverill MP - Maurice DenhamJanet Marshall - Elisabeth ProudDr Ken Richards - David SpenserAnna Deverill - Marion Mathie'Tug' Wilson - Stephen JackMrs Wilson - Miriam MargolyesSergeant Johnson - Wilfred BabbageInspector Baxter - Geoffrey MatthewsConstable/First Journalist/Pilot - Anthony JacksonProfessor Landers - Rolf LefebvreProfessor Lippert - Allan McClellandNewscaster/AC2 Gibbons - Nigel GrahamMrs Luke - Noel HoodNursing Sister - Eva HaddonSorensen - Fraser KerrRAF Corporal - Anthony HallBarry - Glyn DearmanNurse - Patricia LeventonDr Robeson - Michael KilgarriffSecond Journalist - Hector RossThird Journalist/Policeman/Ground Control - Brian HewlettAmerican Journalist - Peter MarinkerVicar - Noel HowlettMargaret Griffiths MP - Joan MathesonTV Interviewer - Henry StamperSpecial effects: The BBC Radiophonic WorkshopFirst broadcast BBC Radio Light Programme, 13 February-27 March 1966Night of the WolfJudge Mathew Deacon - Vincent PriceRobert Deacon, his son - Peter WhitmanMrs Northcott - Coral BrowneSybil, her daughter - Sheila GrantDorothy, Sybil's daughter - Elizabeth ProudNicholas, Sybil's son - John RyeGriffin, an undergraduate - Michael CochraneProfessor Forrester - Hugh ManningSir Richard Burnett - Haydn JonesMorris - Paul GaymonJessie - Norma RonaldTechnical assistants Jock Parrell, Marsail MacCuish, David Bitchinson and Alister WilsonFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 August 1975DarkVirginia Preston - Honor BlackmanMother - Bessie LoveSimon Elliott - Nigel AnthonyFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 February 1978(p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd