RAY BRADBURY - SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th October 2025
Set in 1960's Illinois, USA: this is the story of two boys, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight.
James Nightshade and William Halloway are two innocents, both aged 13.
Will was born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after.
Both save the souls of the town - as well as their own.
Starring Theo Gregory and Joseph Lindsay.
Ray Bradbury's gem of modern Gothic literature, first published in 1962
Dramatised by Diana Griffiths
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
Music composed by David Paul Jones
Sound by Paul Cargill
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011.
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