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The BBC had a special 'Cinema 100' season of programming to celebrate 100 years of motion pictures, and a particularly notable part of this was a short run of plays based on classic Ealing comedies. I've already posted an excellent adaptation of The Ladykillers, and here is the adaptation of the legendary serial-killer-spree-of-manners Kind Hearts and Coronets.
It's by no means the only radio adaptation. In 1980 Radio 4 had produced a version starring Robert Powell (repeated in 1990), and a 1965 Saturday-Night Theatre adaptation featured Dennis Price returning to the lead role that he had filled so magnificently in the film.
The 1996 version features Michael Kitchen as Louis; famously Alec Guinness played multiple members of the D'Ascoyne family in the film, and for this radio version the job was passed to Harry Enfield. Given Enfield's noted ability to inhabit legions of vivid but very different comic characters he seemed an ideal choice.
MYSTERIOUS MAGPIE is a channel devoted to ghost and horror stories on British radio, and to dark tales of every kind. I have another channel, MYSTICAL MAGPIE, which is all about stories of fantasy, mythology, and adventure: https://www.youtube.com/@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn
If you're interested to know more about the century-long history of ghost and horror stories broadcast at Christmas on British television and radio, you might like to check out HOLLY WRAITHS (and its companion volume HOLLY TERRORS), an A-Z guide available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Lulu.com.
Holly Wraiths on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holly-Wraiths-Stories-Christmas-Television/dp/B0BRPNV5QT/ref=sr_1_2?crid=19SPJYB8KTAJ0&keywords=holly+wraiths&qid=1693491353&sprefix=holly+wraiths%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-2