BBC R4 - Richard Marsh's 'The Beetle'
Adapted by Roger Danes
Produced by Marion Nancarrow
Broadcast March 15, 1997
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
The Beetle is a macabre story in which a shape-changing creature
with hypnotic powers ' ... born of neither god nor man ... ' stalks MP
Paul Lessingham through late Victorian London.
Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of Richard Bernard Heldman
(1857-1915). The book was published in 1897. This production
was broadcast to celebrate the book's centenary
Cast
Stephen Thorne
Hugh Dickson
Tracy Oberman
Christopher Scott
Ioan Meredith
Chris Pavlo
Alison Pettitt
Gerard Mcdermott
Sean Baker
Alex Lowe
Janet Maw
Robert Harper
Linda Polan
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