The Parchment
A holiday in Cornwall with their great uncle turns sinister as the Drew children make a curious discovery. Stars Ronald Pickup.
Holidaying with their great-uncle in Cornwall, siblings Simon, Jane and Barney make a curious discovery in a cluttered attic.
What they expected to be an ordinary summer in the village of Trewissick turns into something very unordinary - and frightening...
From Susan Cooper's classic sequence of novels 'The Dark is Rising' - 'Over Sea, Under Stone' was first published in 1965.
Dramatised in four parts by David Calcutt.
Great Uncle Merry …….. Ronald Pickup
Jane …….. Naomi Kerbel
Simon …….. Ben Gutteridge
Barney …….. Edward Clarke
Hastings …….. Struan Rodger
Music composed and performed by Martin Allcock.
Director: Nigel Bryant.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995.
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