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Another of Michael and Mollie Hardwick's memorably macabre radio adaptations, this one was broadcast just a few months before their adaptation of Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You - which is notable for having been broadcast on Christmas Eve and for having starred Michael Hordern in the role that he would return to for Jonathan Miller's TV adaptation of that story. Martin's Close is an intriguing tale, adapted more recently on TV by Mark Gatiss - but nor was this the first radio adaptation. An earlier dramatisation, entitled 'Madam, Will You Walk' was broadcast in 1938 and again in 1946... though presumably that was a new broadcast rather than a repeat, given the scarcity of recordings from such an early period of radio.
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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.
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