Monday 9 June 2014

BRADBURY AT THE BEEB: 'THE JAR'

Another day and another excursion into the imagination of Ray Bradbury...

'The Jar' is one of Ray's most intense and chilling stories: first published in the magazine Weird Tales in November 1944, it has been dramatised several times on television and radio.

This production of my dramatisation was directed by Martin Jenkins and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 pm on 21 December 1995 as part of Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre.

The play is introduced by the author and the talented cast features Roger May, Andrew Branch, Shelley Thompson, Paul Jenkins, Bon Sherman, John Hartley, Helen Horton, Carole Boyd, David Collings and Ray Shell.


Tomorrow: 'The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl'

2 comments:

Phil said...

Good to see that image from the HITCHCOCK tv adaptation of "The Jar". The prop jar still exists, but it's gone a bit cloudy over the years:

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Brian Sibley said...

Thanks for this, Phil – fascinating to know the Hitchcock 'Jar' still exists. I saw it, many years ago, when Ray had an office in down-town LA along with a wonderful maquette of the Nautilus from Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and many other treasures...

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