by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
with John Justin as George Vendale
'As I strolled past the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury the other day I thought of the many babes who had lain in the basket outside the Hospital's gate: and of the many footsteps that had hurried away from that spot, leaving a small life behind them. Of one set of footsteps in particular, and the strange story with its mystery and its terror, which began in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a chill November night....'