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Pilgrim Specials
Once a year on the eve of the winter solstice the village of Goldholm awakes for 24 hours. Conversations are resumed, customs observed - and the villagers, asleep since the late seventeen hundreds, continue with their lives entirely unaware that by sunset on the solstice they shall all be sleeping peacefully again.
Amongst the sleeping villages there is the "Maid of Goldholm", whose spell has kept her and the villagers locked in this cycle. It was Pilgrim, her old foe, who managed to persuade her to put herself and the villagers to sleep to stop her enslaving them.
Three hundred years later she has been awoken and is aggrieved at being treated with contempt. She makes a if Pilgrim will allow himself become her slave then the villagers of Goldholm will be allowed to continue sleeping undisturbed. If Pilgrim does not surrender then the villagers will be forced to awake from their slumber and face the trauma of a modern world for which they are hopelessly unprepared. Pilgrim must make his choice...and he must do so before the sunset on the solstice.
Told over the two days of the winter solstice - Pilgrim must walk again between the worlds of magick and of men.
Amongst the sleeping villages there is the "Maid of Goldholm", whose spell has kept her and the villagers locked in this cycle. It was Pilgrim, her old foe, who managed to persuade her to put herself and the villagers to sleep to stop her enslaving them.
Three hundred years later she has been awoken and is aggrieved at being treated with contempt. She makes a if Pilgrim will allow himself become her slave then the villagers of Goldholm will be allowed to continue sleeping undisturbed. If Pilgrim does not surrender then the villagers will be forced to awake from their slumber and face the trauma of a modern world for which they are hopelessly unprepared. Pilgrim must make his choice...and he must do so before the sunset on the solstice.
Told over the two days of the winter solstice - Pilgrim must walk again between the worlds of magick and of men.
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Published June 1, 2019
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August 31, 2019
⭐️3.5⭐️
BBC 4 radio drama (audio) with full cast of Pilgrim : The Winter Queen. Using this Pilgrim Specials edition to add to my books, as unable to find The Winter Queen edition on GR.
Synopsis :
‘Every year, on the winter solstice, the small town of Melcombe observes an annual custom, the roots and meaning of which are lost in the mists of time. A torchlit procession to the ancient tomb of Cairndale Knapp, overlooking the town, puts the old sun to bed and greets the new sun in the morning, restoring balance to the year.
This year, however, Mr Sam Notice has bought the Knapp and has set about landscaping it. And with the felling of an ancient yew tree, the roots and meaning of the old custom spring malevolently to life, as the Winter Queen is finally released from her prison and bent on revenge.
Told over the two days of the winter solstice - Pilgrim walks again between the worlds of magick and of men’
BBC 4 radio drama (audio) with full cast of Pilgrim : The Winter Queen. Using this Pilgrim Specials edition to add to my books, as unable to find The Winter Queen edition on GR.
Synopsis :
‘Every year, on the winter solstice, the small town of Melcombe observes an annual custom, the roots and meaning of which are lost in the mists of time. A torchlit procession to the ancient tomb of Cairndale Knapp, overlooking the town, puts the old sun to bed and greets the new sun in the morning, restoring balance to the year.
This year, however, Mr Sam Notice has bought the Knapp and has set about landscaping it. And with the felling of an ancient yew tree, the roots and meaning of the old custom spring malevolently to life, as the Winter Queen is finally released from her prison and bent on revenge.
Told over the two days of the winter solstice - Pilgrim walks again between the worlds of magick and of men’
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