The Fall of The House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

Drama: Horror & Supernatural

Tales from the American master of mystery and the macabre.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of The House of Usher

28/10/2018

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of The House of Usher

Edward Petherbridge and Tim Pigott-Smith star in an adaptation of Poe's Gothic tale.

Roderick is a tormented man - with a twin sister suffering an illness physicians don't understand. With Tim Pigott-Smith.

'I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn, and gazed at the vacant eye-like windows of the house.

Roderick is a tormented man - with a twin sister suffering an illness physicians don't understand. 

Edgar Allan Poe’s 19th century Gothic tale dramatised by David Campton.

Cast:
Roderick Usher.....Edward Petherbridge
Narrator....Tim Pigott-Smith
Doctor...Roger Hume 

Guitarist: John Turner  

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

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