The following year, six new stories were broadcast weekly from 6 April to, before being repeated on BBC Radio 4 in the summer of 1975, along with a handful of series one episodes. In December, the original five got a further airing on BBC Radio 4. These were repeated, along with five new stories, from 1 September to 17 November. Initially, the BBC World Service ordered five stories, which aired nightly in the first week of July 1973. So, let us now turn the light down low, relax and enjoy every moment of it.Ī break in rehearsals for the cast: left to right, Mervyn Johns, writer William Ingram, Diana Bishop, Robin Browne, Avril Angers, Vincent Price, Clive Swift and Michael Gwynne
But just as each story had a deliciously wicked twist, so did the series, as each tale was re-written as though Price had actually experienced the chilling adventure himself. They were guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine of the listener just before they turned out the lights.Ī detached brain, medieval torture, high-street cannibalism and a bad night in a chamber of horrors were just some of the many curious incidents told by Price, and all were drawn from talented writers – both well-known and new. Having carved out a career as the master of the macabre and cinema’s leading scare merchant in a series of 1960s-lensed Gothic chillers, and having played a rogues gallery of villains, scoundrels and madmen on the big screen in the 1940s and 1950s, Vincent Price was ripe to get his own horror series in the 1970s – especially on radio, which had always been the perfect medium for the veteran actor’s magnificent, mellifluous voice.Ī foreboding music theme, a blood-curdling scream, and Price intoning ‘Hello, there…’ welcomed listeners to The Price of Fear, BBC Radio’s late-night serial in which he brought his own elegant eeriness to a series of dramatizations that were sometimes horrific, sometimes with a macabre sense of humor, but always with an inescapable element of fear. Here are high quality upgrades of the Vincent Price BBC Radio 4 / World Service horror series The Price of Fear in FLAC and high quality Mp3.įrom The Sound of Vincent Price (a phenomenal resource): UPDATED : I added a high quality version of "William and Mary," so the series is now complete.
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