BBC RADIO DRAMA: THE HEX by Gregory Evans

The Hex by Gregory Evans was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981.
[Music removed because of copyright reasons]
Story:
Horror - Play based upon an idea by M R James.
Embroiled in a public controversy with a black-magic charlatan called Gardini, Montague receives an unexpected apology from the man - an apology which masks a strange and inexorable curse: Montague has been hexed.

[@Chele212]

Love BBC radio Since I can’t read anymore I had two strokes Love hauntings Scary stories 🖤

[@craigoliver8712]

So sorry Holli all the best for the future hope things can pick up for you hopefully take care from a total stranger but sincerely meant-enjoy your stories ❤️

[@chidlowt]

BBC Radio 4 is wonderfull. A cliche but the pictures are better on radio.

[@riverbilly64]

11 June 2024 - Listening from Kentucky, USA. Good story! Saving it to my faves.

[@Bilbo244]

Listening in bed you can't beat an English cast to tell a good scary storie.

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

Based on Casting the Runes by M R James given a more modern twist.

[@craigoliver8712]

I have heard casting the runes(good story)

[@stephanieconley4301]

That one was a little scary!! Loved it!! Thank you :):)

[@archphoenixstanton6998]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jackiewacky346]

Thankyou i sure appreciate your uploads even though ive heard them before love these short dramas.

[@janlewis567]

SO good to have you back!! :) :)

[@royhadley686]

Thank you

[@lindam9018]

That was awesome!

[@poppadoesitpropa]

Yes very similar story line night of the demon with main protagonist called "Carswell" great post

[@valeofglamman3225]

You can't beat an M R James ghost story at Christmas.

[@mrs.cracker4622]

Many thanks!

[@jwsuicides8095]

Thanks. A lot of interpretations of this story out there but hadn't heard this one. Very scary.

[@glenszczypski7734]

This story was made into the movie, The Curse of the Demon starring Dana Andrews. It was suitably creepy. Scared me as a kid.

[@jwsuicides8095]

Not watched it since a kid and you're right...the ending was unusual with its special effects for those days.

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

It was actually called Night of the Demon and did contain some good special effects for 1956.

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

Actually it was Night of the Demon. You can still get it on DVD. The demon sequences were very good for the time, the one that got me was the disembodied cloven footprints appearing with a wisp of smoke in the ground coming after Dana Andrews when he was in the woods at night.

[@xanaduhouseguest]

@@arthurbaldwin1804 Actually it is known by both titles - Night of the Demon in the UK and Curse of the Demon when it was released in the US (which is why Dana Andrews was "parachuted in" to play the male lead in an otherwise UK cast). It is a fine piece of work possibly only let down a little by revealing "the Demon" very early on in the film, but suitably scary nevertheless.

[@jamesgrant4171]

From a short story by M R James 'Casting the Runes'

[@louisbrugnoni7639]

Welcome back!

[@dshe8637]

Tag! You're it!

[@tobobobo2842]

Enjoyed that.

[@anaderol5408]

Liked it - thanks

[@lavenderfields929]

What a fantastic play. First class. 🇦🇺

[@josiekirton9016]

Absolutely !

[@francessimmonds5784]

Mogadon mild! That dates this. They used to prescribe mogadon to psychiatric patients which’d turn them into walking “zombies” called “the mogadon shuffle”

[@cpryce6436]

In my younger days it was the Largactil shuffle ☺️ I was prescribed chlorpromazine for moderate depression age 18, and had been given Ativan for sleepwalking age 12! 😮

[@angelsone-five7912]

Very good story, enjoyed that. Good job the hex was personal and didn`t involve the whole train, eh?

[@albie7581]

Surely this play Has been lifted from the 1950's Film night of the demon.

[@raynorth769]

Yes your correct. Night of the Demon U S title curse of the Demon. Was adapted from the story Casting the Runes ,by M.R.James.

[@albie7581]

@@raynorth769 thanks for that

[@etsugradlib]

Great story but I wish they would back way off on the Foley (the background noises), especially while people are talking. And with the overtalking in the beginning, I actually missed most of the TV interview and had to simply intuit that the interview went badly. It's very hard to hear two things at once, but audio people seem to refuse to believe that.

[@lalafl200]

Dude I started listening to this at 8pm and immediately was like "nope" lol listening again at 830am

[@Girlgamssilver]

Why did you remove that phrase, "the day he died"

[@Girlgamssilver]

I wondered about that too

[@mikamee5459]

Oh that was creepy.

[@lesdavies48]

From the movie Night of the Demon a great movie

[@boxfox2945]

Boltzmann brain, truth stranger than fiction.. Everybody's a puppet. Law of energy. Tbought is just electrical, so-called life'

[@rutheglin-pugh2320]

Too heavy on the sound effects by far! Unsubtle, distracting and diluting the overall effect of the play.

[@obsidiandwarf]

' NIGHT OF THE DAEMON '. If you like thi9s story (and I do), watch the film. Dana Andrews. Don't know which came first, this or the film but, the premis is the same.

[@seanmichaluk1222]

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[@SueHorridge]

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[@paulhunter123]

this is incredibly dull