Yaxley's Cat by Robert Westall

Posted by william warren on March 24, 2015 at 5:35am

Sapp Yaxley had been missing for seven years. "Not dead", the villagers said, "just gone".

Rose, Tim and Jane thought his cottage, alone by the marshes, a perfect place for a holiday adventure. But then the cat turned up. Yaxley's cat, old and ugly, yowling and clawing through the house at midnight.

A cat looking for the truth. A truth the villagers would kill to keep secret.

 

Cast:

Rose.........Kathryn Hurlbutt

Jane.........Susan Mann

Tim.........Richard Pearce

Vicar.........Jonathan Wyatt

Miss Yaxley.........Patience Tomlinson

Nathan Gotobed: Peter Tuddenham

Jack Sydenham.........Graham Howes

Shopkeeper/Doctor.........Jo Kendall

Directed by Nigel Bryant at BBC Pebble Mill

From 31-10-1992 (Halloween)

Size 40MB. Length 87 Minutes. Bitrate 64kbps.

http://1drv.ms/1ClhUBn

Anson (Bob) Roberts has posted a better encode of this within the Horror & Suspense Uploads Folder.

 

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  • Gerald Lea March 25, 2015 at 5:47pm

    Thanks!

  • Gayle Crane March 24, 2015 at 10:30pm

    Thanks!

  • Bruce Fisher March 24, 2015 at 7:03pm

    Thanks so much for the great upgrade Bill.

    It's a big improvement over the sound quality I had on cassette. Really good.

    Wondered if you any more quality audio upgrades like these BBC oldie SF and Horror.

    IE. Scientists of the Strange,

          Dune Rollers,

          The Mobius Twist,

          Blindness,

          Odd,

          Blue Moon,

          The Trouble with Lichen, (The dramatization not the reading.)

          Satelitte Seven,

          Frame of Deference,

          Appreciate whatever you might have, but whether you have any of them or not thanks so much again for the upgrade and  please keep'em coming dude.

          It's so great to hear these otrers like they should be heard.

         

         

    • william warren > Bruce Fisher March 25, 2015 at 1:17am

      I'm glad you enjoyed Yaxley's Cat, Bruce.

      The upgrade is courtesy of Anson (Bob) Roberts and not myself.

      If you post your request for upgrades in the "REQUESTS" group it will open it up to a far greater exposure than within any one group's members.

    • Bruce Fisher > william warren March 25, 2015 at 5:15pm

      Thanks for your reponse Bill.

      I took your salient advice.

  • Anson (Bob) Roberts March 24, 2015 at 2:12pm

    I love Westall's work. My favorite is The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, although The Wheatstone Pond is a close second.

    I've posted a 128/44 encode of this story in the Horror and Suspense uploads folder.

    I'm preparing a full set of Westall's plays as well.

    • David Knight > Anson (Bob) Roberts March 25, 2015 at 2:25pm

      Westall is superb - and as a child at school, of all of the books we did, by miles The Machine Gunners was my favourite! :) 

  • Chimp March 24, 2015 at 6:16am
    Thanks for sharing. Never heard of this one.
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