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Bad Memories
In 2004, a successful architect and his family mysteriously disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are found in the cellar of their house. They are identified as Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Philip Gibson, who was on the missing person's register and a woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only were they murdered, but the time of death was 1926. Can audio files found with the bodies solve the mystery?
This radio drama first aired on BBC Radio 4 on 7 January 2011 and received the Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Award at the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Awards. The cast features Nicola Walker, Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Jana Carpenter, Anthony Calf, Imogen McCurdy, Oscar Richardson, Rohan Nijhawan, and Ted Powell.
This radio drama first aired on BBC Radio 4 on 7 January 2011 and received the Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Award at the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Awards. The cast features Nicola Walker, Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Jana Carpenter, Anthony Calf, Imogen McCurdy, Oscar Richardson, Rohan Nijhawan, and Ted Powell.
- GenresHorror
1 pages, Audiobook
First published January 7, 2011
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December 17, 2019
Scary play. Do NOT listen to this on your own!
March 16, 2013
This play is creepy and unsettling. It makes good use of 2 disparate time streams to add to the scary feel.
July 26, 2026
A police officer visits an audio engineer to have some tapes from a crime scene cleaned up. What they both find in this work stretches their imagination, and opens more questions than it provides answers. The question is, what to do about it?
Bad Memories is a one-off radio play by Julian Simpson of about an hour's length. Quite possibly inspired by The Stone Tape, Bad Memories falls neatly into the tradition of Brittish weird and spooky fiction. Cleverly written as always with Simpson, not without humor, but definitely freaky as well.
A good lead in to his further work, even if it isn't technically directly linked to it.
Bad Memories is a one-off radio play by Julian Simpson of about an hour's length. Quite possibly inspired by The Stone Tape, Bad Memories falls neatly into the tradition of Brittish weird and spooky fiction. Cleverly written as always with Simpson, not without humor, but definitely freaky as well.
A good lead in to his further work, even if it isn't technically directly linked to it.
December 23, 2023
This is a really creepy story. It uses the format of audio, and makes it really creepy using sound. Some of the ideas of the story are really frightening to think about as well. The connections to Lovecraft Investigations and other Pleasant Green stories are really cool as well. Overall, a very enjoyable listen. Highly recommended.
June 17, 2020
Great radio play. Dripping in a creepy atmosphere- echoes of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape.
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