(New voice, now with some reverb) "The Weird Circle. In this cave by the restless sea we are met to call out of the past stories strange and weird. Bell-keeper - toll the bell, so that all may know that we are gathered again in The Weird Circle!" (Bell tolling) (Old voice) "Out of the past phantoms of a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: The Great Plague."
This episode, first broadcast on December 5, 1943, is an adaptation of A Tale of the Great Plague by Thomas Hood, first published in 1840. To the original was added a sympathetic protagonist - a poor transient pulled into a monstrous crime through the company he keeps - who drives some of the transitions with his monologues, while the Great Plague of London itself as background is not properly established until later. A bit of humor mixed with the gruesomeness of the planned deeds makes for an entertaining twenty minutes of radio.
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