Vintage BBC Radio Horror: The Slide, Night of the Wolf & Dark: Three full-cast supernatural thrillers

A trio of terrifying radio tales starring Roger Delgado, Vincent Price and Honor Blackman

Author, 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 Tydeman

The Slide Professor Josef Gomez - Roger Delgado Hugh Deverill MP - Maurice Denham Janet Marshall - Elisabeth Proud Dr Ken Richards - David Spenser Anna Deverill - Marion Mathie 'Tug' Wilson - Stephen Jack Mrs Wilson - Miriam Margolyes Sergeant Johnson - Wilfred Babbage Inspector Baxter - Geoffrey Matthews Constable/First Journalist/Pilot - Anthony Jackson Professor Landers - Rolf Lefebvre Professor Lippert - Allan McClelland Newscaster/AC2 Gibbons - Nigel Graham Mrs Luke - Noel Hood Nursing Sister - Eva Haddon Sorensen - Fraser Kerr RAF Corporal - Anthony Hall Barry - Glyn Dearman Nurse - Patricia Leventon Dr Robeson - Michael Kilgarriff Second Journalist - Hector Ross Third Journalist/Policeman/Ground Control - Brian Hewlett American Journalist - Peter Marinker Vicar - Noel Howlett Margaret Griffiths MP - Joan Matheson TV Interviewer - Henry Stamper Special effects: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop First broadcast BBC Radio Light Programme, 13 February-27 March 1966

Night of the Wolf Judge Mathew Deacon - Vincent Price Robert Deacon, his son - Peter Whitman Mrs Northcott - Coral Browne Sybil, her daughter - Sheila Grant Dorothy, Sybil's daughter - Elizabeth Proud Nicholas, Sybil's son - John Rye Griffin, an undergraduate - Michael Cochrane Professor Forrester - Hugh Manning Sir Richard Burnett - Haydn Jones Morris - Paul Gaymon Jessie - Norma Ronald Technical assistants Jock Parrell, Marsail MacCuish, David Bitchinson and Alister Wilson First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 August 1975

Dark Virginia Preston - Honor Blackman Mother - Bessie Love Simon Elliott - Nigel Anthony First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 February 1978

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