Nigel Kneale’s 1972 chiller The Stone Tape is to be broadcast in boffiny binaural stereo on Radio 4,just in time for HalloweenThe nights are drawing in, the clocks have gone back and there’s no better time for radio dramas with roots in the world of frightening films. The star attraction on Radio 4s Fright Night (Saturday, and 10pm,Radio 4) is film-maker Peter Strickland’s reimagining of Nigel “Quatermass” Kneale’s chiller The Stone Tape, which was first broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas in 1972. Jane Asher starred in that production; this time she plays the mother of her original character, and who’s now played by Romola Garai. Julian Rhind-Tutt is the driven doctor trying to harness sound waves to earn his fortune and who suspects the others aren’t taking his project seriously enough. A team of researchers swagger into a fresh laboratory in a remote Victorian mansion. The air is rent with a scream in the middle of the night. Now listen on. Particularly whether you’re tuning in online in the binaural stereo treatment that has been specially developed by BBC boffins for the occasion.
Those who find themselves insufficiently frit by The Stone Tape can switch over to The Exorcist (Saturday,12midnight, Radio 4 Extra) and remain terrified right into the next day. This 2014 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 chiller stars Robert Glenister as the titular Karras and Lydia Wilson as Regan, or she of the unpredictable spin-cycle.
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Source: theguardian.com