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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.
RAY BRADBURY - THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th April 2019
Iain Glen is the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation by Brian Sibley of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection.
A young traveller encounters a vagrant on the road who claims his tattoos come to life after dark and have the powers of prophecy.
The vagrant offers his young travelling companion tantalising glimpses into the future with tales of restless androids, children caught up in a sinister game and astronauts stranded in outer space which all hint at dark and troubling times ahead.
The Illustrated Man ... Iain Glen
The Youth ... Jamie Parker
The Tattoo Witch ... Elaine Claxton
The Driver ... Wilf Scolding
Brayling/Brayling 2 ... Patrick Kennedy
Smith ... Stephen Hogan
Mink ... Nell Herrin
Mother ... Heather Craney
Father ... Clive Hayward
Anna ... Lucy Hutchinson
Hollis ... Alec Newman
Applegate ... John P. Arnold
Stone ... Jaimi Barbakoff
Stimson ... Craige Els
Directed by Gemma Jenkins
Production Co-ordinator: Philippa Tilbury
Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Peter Ringrose, Alison Craig.
First published in the UK in 1952, it's the startling framing device of a man whose tattoos predict the future of humankind which signals Bradbury's collection out as one of the defining works of 20th century Science Fiction.
The award-winning radio dramatist, Brian Sibley's other credits include dramatisations of TH White's The Once and Future King, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels and The Lord of The Rings trilogy.
