The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

 

BBC R4 - Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Gold Bug'
'Irreverantly' adapted by Gregory Evans
Piano played by Neil Brand
Directed by Ned Chaillet
Broadcast December 15, 2001
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

A bite from a gold coloured insect leads
to a coded message and a treasure hunt.

Well made. Good fun too. But not, perhaps,
for Edgar Allan Poe anoraks.

Cast
Charles - Clark Peters
Jupiter - Rashan Stone
Doctor - Bill Hootkins
Le Grand - John Cherion
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  • I would agree that this is "good fun," but it certainly is NOT Poe. It lacks the horror, the muystery and the suspense, leaving only the title.

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