Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Screeching victims of the sabre-toothed and iron-clawed? Or monstrous perpetrators of the gooey, slimy and unspeakable? Cheryl Armitage unmasks women in horror movies. Serial: Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski.
The first of eight episodes read by Bernard Horsfall. In 1943,
Hilary Wainwright 's little son is taken away for safety just before Hilary's wife is arrested and killed by the Gestapo. In 1945, Hilary returns to peacetime
France to begin a search for his 'Little Boy Lost'. Abridged by Ann Rees-Jones (Music: Walter Leigh 's
Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra)