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Dark Tales: The Beetle

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By Richard Marsh, dramatised by Roger Danes.
Marsh's Gothic novel was first published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula, which it outsold six times over.

MP Paul Lessingham, a handsome man of wealth, talent and ambition, has a strange and disturbing past which threatens to destroy him.

Contributors

Author:
Richard Marsh
Dramatised by:
Roger Danes
Director:
Marion Nancarrow
Robert Holt:
Robert Harper
Paul Lessingham:
Gerard McDermott
Sidney Atherton:
Alex Lowe
Marjorie Lindon:
Janet Maw
Augustus Champnell:
Sean Baker
Mr Lindon:
Hugh Dickson
Percy Woodville:
Christopher Scott
Dora Grayling:
Tracy Ann Oberman
[Actor]:
Ioan Meredith
[Actor]:
Stephen Thorne
[Actress]:
Linda Polan
[Actor]:
Chris Pavlo
[Actress]:
Alison Pettit
Source: Radio Times

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