BBC RADIO DRAMA: THE HEX by Gregory Evans

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  • Опубликовано: 21 апр 2020
  • The Hex by Gregory Evans was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981.
    [Music removed because of copyright reasons]
    Story:
    Horror - Play based upon an idea by M R James.
    Embroiled in a public controversy with a black-magic charlatan called Gardini, Montague receives an unexpected apology from the man - an apology which masks a strange and inexorable curse: Montague has been hexed.

Комментарии • 56

  • @Chele212
    @Chele212 Год назад +46

    Love BBC radio
    Since I can’t read anymore I had two strokes
    Love hauntings
    Scary stories 🖤

    • @craigoliver8712
      @craigoliver8712 Год назад +5

      So sorry Holli all the best for the future hope things can pick up for you hopefully take care from a total stranger but sincerely meant-enjoy your stories ❤️

    • @chidlowt
      @chidlowt 8 месяцев назад +1

      BBC Radio 4 is wonderfull. A cliche but the pictures are better on radio.

  • @Bilbo244
    @Bilbo244 7 месяцев назад +8

    Listening in bed you can't beat an English cast to tell a good scary storie.

  • @riverbilly64
    @riverbilly64 Месяц назад +1

    11 June 2024 - Listening from Kentucky, USA. Good story! Saving it to my faves.

  • @arthurbaldwin1804
    @arthurbaldwin1804 Год назад +12

    Based on Casting the Runes by M R James given a more modern twist.

    • @craigoliver8712
      @craigoliver8712 Год назад +1

      I have heard casting the runes(good story)

  • @jackiewacky346
    @jackiewacky346 3 года назад +8

    Thankyou i sure appreciate your uploads even though ive heard them before love these short dramas.

  • @stephanieconley4301
    @stephanieconley4301 Год назад +10

    That one was a little scary!! Loved it!! Thank you :):)

  • @janlewis567
    @janlewis567 4 года назад +6

    SO good to have you back!! :) :)

  • @royhadley686
    @royhadley686 6 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you

  • @XyzXyz-mm9vq
    @XyzXyz-mm9vq 20 дней назад

    I’m not a fan of supernatural/voodoo stories, but this one I enjoyed immensely. Thank you for sharing.

  • @mrs.cracker4622
    @mrs.cracker4622 Год назад +2

    Many thanks!

  • @poppadoesitpropa
    @poppadoesitpropa 11 месяцев назад +2

    Yes very similar story line night of the demon with main protagonist called "Carswell" great post

  • @jwsuicides8095
    @jwsuicides8095 Год назад +5

    Thanks. A lot of interpretations of this story out there but hadn't heard this one. Very scary.

  • @lindam9018
    @lindam9018 8 месяцев назад +2

    That was awesome!

  • @louisbrugnoni7639
    @louisbrugnoni7639 Год назад +1

    Welcome back!

  • @glenszczypski7734
    @glenszczypski7734 Год назад +18

    This story was made into the movie, The Curse of the Demon starring Dana Andrews. It was suitably creepy. Scared me as a kid.

    • @jwsuicides8095
      @jwsuicides8095 Год назад +2

      Not watched it since a kid and you're right...the ending was unusual with its special effects for those days.

    • @arthurbaldwin1804
      @arthurbaldwin1804 Год назад +6

      It was actually called Night of the Demon and did contain some good special effects for 1956.

    • @arthurbaldwin1804
      @arthurbaldwin1804 Год назад +6

      Actually it was Night of the Demon. You can still get it on DVD. The demon sequences were very good for the time, the one that got me was the disembodied cloven footprints appearing with a wisp of smoke in the ground coming after Dana Andrews when he was in the woods at night.

    • @xanaduhouseguest
      @xanaduhouseguest Год назад +3

      @@arthurbaldwin1804 Actually it is known by both titles - Night of the Demon in the UK and Curse of the Demon when it was released in the US (which is why Dana Andrews was "parachuted in" to play the male lead in an otherwise UK cast). It is a fine piece of work possibly only let down a little by revealing "the Demon" very early on in the film, but suitably scary nevertheless.

    • @jamesgrant4171
      @jamesgrant4171 Год назад +2

      From a short story by M R James 'Casting the Runes'

  • @anaderol5408
    @anaderol5408 9 месяцев назад +2

    Liked it - thanks

  • @valeofglamman3225
    @valeofglamman3225 Год назад +10

    You can't beat an M R James ghost story at Christmas.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 Год назад +2

    Tag! You're it!

  • @tobobobo2842
    @tobobobo2842 2 года назад +2

    Enjoyed that.

  • @josiekirton9016
    @josiekirton9016 3 года назад +1

    Absolutely !

  • @michaelfraser5723
    @michaelfraser5723 4 дня назад

    Savour such plays, before the BBC recasts them all in brown.

  • @lavenderfields929
    @lavenderfields929 4 месяца назад

    What a fantastic play. First class. 🇦🇺

  • @francessimmonds5784
    @francessimmonds5784 2 месяца назад

    Mogadon mild! That dates this. They used to prescribe mogadon to psychiatric patients which’d turn them into walking “zombies” called “the mogadon shuffle”

    • @cpryce6436
      @cpryce6436 2 месяца назад

      In my younger days it was the Largactil shuffle ☺️ I was prescribed chlorpromazine for moderate depression age 18, and had been given Ativan for sleepwalking age 12! 😮

  • @albie7581
    @albie7581 5 месяцев назад +1

    Surely this play
    Has been lifted from the 1950's
    Film night of the demon.

    • @raynorth769
      @raynorth769 Месяц назад +1

      Yes your correct.
      Night of the Demon
      U S title curse of the Demon.
      Was adapted from the
      story Casting the Runes ,by M.R.James.

    • @albie7581
      @albie7581 Месяц назад

      @@raynorth769 thanks for that

  • @etsugradlib
    @etsugradlib Год назад +1

    Great story but I wish they would back way off on the Foley (the background noises), especially while people are talking. And with the overtalking in the beginning, I actually missed most of the TV interview and had to simply intuit that the interview went badly. It's very hard to hear two things at once, but audio people seem to refuse to believe that.

  • @angelsone-five7912
    @angelsone-five7912 3 месяца назад

    Very good story, enjoyed that. Good job the hex was personal and didn`t involve the whole train, eh?

  • @Girlgamssilver
    @Girlgamssilver 2 года назад +3

    Why did you remove that phrase, "the day he died"

  • @mikamee5459
    @mikamee5459 Год назад +1

    Oh that was creepy.

  • @lalafl200
    @lalafl200 7 месяцев назад +1

    Dude I started listening to this at 8pm and immediately was like "nope" lol listening again at 830am

  • @lesdavies48
    @lesdavies48 Год назад +2

    From the movie Night of the Demon a great movie

  • @boxfox2945
    @boxfox2945 4 месяца назад

    Boltzmann brain, truth stranger than fiction.. Everybody's a puppet. Law of energy. Tbought is just electrical, so-called life'

  • @seanmichaluk1222
    @seanmichaluk1222 Год назад +1

    036

  • @rutheglin-pugh2320
    @rutheglin-pugh2320 7 месяцев назад +1

    Too heavy on the sound effects by far! Unsubtle, distracting and diluting the overall effect of the play.

  • @SueHorridge
    @SueHorridge 2 месяца назад

    4

  • @obsidiandwarf
    @obsidiandwarf Год назад +1

    ' NIGHT OF THE DAEMON '. If you like thi9s story (and I do), watch the film. Dana Andrews. Don't know which came first, this or the film but, the premis is the same.

  • @michaelfraser5723
    @michaelfraser5723 4 дня назад

    Now that we're all on 'reservations' and the BBC has gone all BrO sensitive, it's all we have to remember the white days.

  • @paulhunter123
    @paulhunter123 Год назад +1

    this is incredibly dull