M.R. James At Christmas

[Michael Connolly]

Aug 21, 2019 17:57:14 GMT ropardoe said:

Looks like I'm the first with the potentially exciting news: www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-21/peter-capaldi-to-star-in-new-bbc4-christmas-ghost-story/?fbclid=IwAR0AHNVsfvJ6Ib712rkw_SuedBYEN-8yzFdb2Bgnm6BPQf4zJdj7aRrG9CQ. At last a new M.R. James Christmas adaptation of a story which has never been dramatised for TV before (though there were two radio plays in the 1930s and '60s).

The 1960s' radio version of "Martin's Close" stands up very well so is worth listening to if it turns up on Radio Four Extra again: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sng2y

I hope the TV version does well enough to be followed by "Count Magnus".



Peter Capaldi in Martin's Close (I think he's wearing a wig!).

[fritzmaitland]

Aug 21, 2019 18:33:15 GMT humgoo said:

Am still waiting for The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance, though.

Just read this for the first time. Utterly beguiling. Rather nasty under the archaic surface, and incredibly ambivalent, even the title.