The Parchment

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Holidaying with their great-uncle in Cornwall, siblings Simon, Jane and Barney make a curious discovery in a cluttered attic. What they expected to be an ordinary summer in the village of Trewissick turns into something very unordinary - and frightening... From Susan Cooper's classic sequence of novels 'The Dark is Rising' - 'Over Sea, Under Stone' was first published in 1965. Dramatised in four parts by David Calcutt. Great Uncle Merry …….. Ronald Pickup Jane …….. Naomi Kerbel Simon …….. Ben Gutteridge Barney …….. Edward Clarke Hastings …….. Struan Rodger Music composed and performed by Martin Allcock. Director: Nigel Bryant. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995.