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Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner

Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner: Episode 2: Tainted Blade

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

Episode 2

Episode 2: Tainted Blade

Tainted Blade

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner, Tainted Blade

Cut by a tainted blade, young Jarral faces death unless his three friends can save him.

Cut by a tainted blade, young Jarral faces death unless his three friends can save him. Stars Eric Allen and Elizabeth Bell.

Jarral carries the marks which Prince Mephtik scratched on his chest with a tainted blade.

He will die without help... 

Douglas Hill's sci-fi fantasy dramatised in four parts by Wally K Daly. 

Starring Eric Allen as Jarral the man, James Holland as Jarral the boy, Elizabeth Bell as Archer, Ben Onwukwe as Carver, Susan Sheridan as Mandra and Hugh Dixon as Prince Mephtik.

Other parts by James Thomason, Auriol Smith, Nigel Carrington, Charles Millom and Neil Roberts as the Soldiers. 

Special effects by Dick Mills. 

Music by Peter Howells of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 

Producer: Peter Fozzard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991.

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