by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley adapted for radio by Malcolm Hazell
with Hugh Dickson as Victor Frankenstein, Trevor Martin as the Daemon

'I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the World.' (Mary Shelley: preface to 1831 edition)
Time: end of the 18th century.
(from Bristol)