Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall. These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: : 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); 'The Speaking Clock' by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); 'The Clock Strikes Eight' by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944); 'And The Deep Shuddered' by Monckton Hoffe(20/11/1945).
Amongst the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring and Gladys Spencer.