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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 2.121.223.255
Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2014 - 08:50 pm:   

I think I just found some viewing material for tonight.

http://youtu.be/1mrVaEebdVw?list=UUIXH08jJumLcgn5PYdkLAPA

"Radio fixes the person but frees the imagination."

This might be the first time this BBC ghost story has been viewed publicly in 36 years. A number of people across the net remember the story, and I've seen requests for it. The quality isn't terrific as I transferred my home video recording to DVD more than 10 years ago - and it's now converted to Flash. T P McKenna stars, playing Ainsley Rupert MacCready, a radio storyteller who writes his own stories (making his character probably not a million miles removed from A J Alan) in this creepy story by David Thomson.

Borrowing a synopsis from IMDB: "It is a well worked traditional Ghost story about a DJ of a radio station who broadcasts a horror story concerning a Magician who enlists the help of a child to perform the "disappearing " act on stage.

"Each night the DJ Narrates a chapter of this story to the listeners as he sits in his darkened studio with just his producer in the control room. After the first night's broadcast, the DJ goes home to his nightcap but is disturbed by the phone ringing, and upon answering hears a child's voice asking him not to continue with the story as it is too frightening."

Of course, he doesn't take the hint...
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.250
Posted on Monday, December 08, 2014 - 09:51 pm:   

Oh yes, I knew this rang a bell when I read your description, David. If Des is reading this he'll remember our old internet friend, Rog Pile. This is one of Rog's uploads. I think Rog drew this to our attention a few years ago on another discussion forum - I remember watching it then anyway. But I'd forgotten all about it.

Definitely, this will appeal to people here. Give it a watch folks!

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