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6. The Spectators of Spectres
Episode 6 of 8
A disenchanted poet pays a visit. Can it be that the old mansion contains both a ghost and a mermaid? Read by Kenneth Williams. From November 1979.
A disenchanted poet pays a visit. Can it be that the old mansion contains both a ghost and a mermaid?
Kenneth Williams reads the Gothic satire poking fun at the Romantic Movement in English literature of the time and its obsession with the morbid.
First published in 1818, βNightmare Abbeyβ follows the fortunes of widower Christopher Glowry, who lives with his son, Scythrop, in the dilapidated family mansion- in Lincolnshire, on a dry stretch of land between the sea and the fens.
Abridged in eight parts and produced by Martin Remes.
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1979.
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