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A young boy’s time-travelling fight against ancient evil

A young boy’s time-travelling fight against ancient evil. This dramatisation of Susan Cooper’s cult novel is a magical journey into the supernatural.

A young boy’s time-travelling fight against ancient evil. When the Dark comes rising, who will hold it back? This dramatisation of Susan Cooper’s cult novel is a magical journey into the supernatural.

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The Dark Is Rising: Episode Two: The Book of Gramarye

Episode Two: The Book of Gramarye

BBC World Service - The Dark Is Rising, Episode Two: The Book of Gramarye

Will uses his new powers, but the Dark appears in many terrifying forms.

Will continues to seek the signs but the Dark is everywhere – ready to strike.

Will tries out his new powers for the first time, but the Dark appears –– and strikes back at him.
When Will travels with Merriman to a different time – 1875 – he begins to understand how much is at stake in his quest for the Six Signs. Nowhere is safe, and his family is now in danger.  


This four-part version, edited for BBC Radio 4, of the BBC World Service serialisation of Susan Cooper's classic, is written and recorded to take place across the Christmas holidays.

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Will Stanton ... Noah Alexander,
John Smith/ Paul Stanton ... Thomas Arnold
Jamaican Old One/ James Stanton/Bus Conductor ... Danny Bailey
Stephen Stanton ... Simon Bubb
Mrs Stanton ... Amanda Hadingue,
The Walker (Hawkin) ... Toby Jones
Narrator ... Simon McBurney
The Rider/Mr Mithothin/Mr Stanton/Farmer Dawson ... Tim McMullen
Merriman ... Paul Rhys
Maggie Barnes/Mary Stanton ... Natasha Stone.
The Lady/Miss Greythorne ... Harriet Walter
Chorister ... Vinay Singh

Soundscape designed by Gareth Fry
Original songs are by Johnny Flynn, Luisa Gerstein and Heloise Tunstall-Behrens.
Music by Josh Sneesby

The book by Susan Cooper was adapted for audio by Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney.

Director: Simon McBurney
Producers: Catherine Bailey and Tim Bell.
A Complicité and Catherine Bailey Production for BBC World Service.

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