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BOOK AT BEDTIME - A NIGHT WITH A VAMPIRE

A Night With A Vampire was a week long series of BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime broadcast over five nights starting on Monday November 22, 2010 and ending on Friday November 26, 2010.

The series was a Pacificus production and the producer was Clive Brill, who spent seven years producing drama for BBC radio and in 1990 he became head of Development for BBC TV Series. 

He formed Pacificus Productions and took on the "Shakespearean" task in 1996 of directing the entire Arkangel Shakespeare Series, in which David

In addition Clive has directed David The Order of Release, The Island, Murder in Samarkand, The Purple Land, the two part Afternoon Play series Stevenson in Love and in the staged reading of Edward III at The Globe.

Other Pacificus Productions David Robert Louis Stevenson's biography, the 2011 Book at Bedtime series Night with a Vampire 2, the radio plays A Quick Change, Love Virtually, Every Seventh Wave, which was also directed by Clive, and the Richard Wilson Radio 4 series Believe It!.

DEAD PERSON IN HUNGARY - NOVEMBER 22, 2010 RUNTIME 14:10

Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the Vampire throughout Europe in the early 19 century called "The Phantom World." All the people he spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the flights of Vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age.

Written by Antoine Augustin Calmet and abridged by Robin Brooks

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THE FAMILY OF THE VOURDALAK - NOVEMBER 23, 2010 - RUNTIME 14:14

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Leo Tolstoy's lesser known brother has written this compelling story about a patriarch who sets off on a mysterious mission but fears he may come back a Vampire. If he should return to their village after 10 days - he begs his family to deny him access and plunge a stake through his heart.

Written by Alexis Tolstoy

THE HORLA - NOVEMBER 24, 2010 - RUNTIME 14:15

After an unusual Brazilian ship enters the harbour - our hero suddenly begins to feel unwell, and starts to have feverish and disturbing visions. Only too late does he discover the demonic nature of the South American ship's cargo.


Written by
Guy de Maupassant.

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LUELLA MILLER - NOVEMBER 25, 2010 - RUNTIME 14:04

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Luella Miller seems incapable of surviving on her own - so she calls on friends, relatives and lovers to help her. And they all die - one by one - until there is no one left to lift a finger to assist this most demanding of women. An unusual tale - set in small town America.

Written by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

CLARIMONDE - NOVEMBER 26, 2010 - RUNTIME 14:10

As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest his eyes glance to heaven - and he sees leaning over the sanctuary railing - a young woman of extraordinary beauty. And so begins a sensational struggle for his soul......

Written by Theophile Gautier.

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