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MR James, the distinguished Cambridge scholar and a brilliant teller of supernatural tales, finds himself caught up in a series of strange, inexplicable events.

The quest for a mysterious tombstone that appears to move about the country involves him with witchcraft and, eventually, a terrible tragedy.

Sheila Hodgson portrays MR James as the diarist of a series of fictional ghost stories.

Starring David March.

MR James …. David March
Francis Lippiat …. Mark Straker
Eleanor Howard …. Moir Leslie
George Masterman …. Christopher Good
Colonel Lippiat …. Stephen Thorne
Rev Matthew Bodmin …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Rev Simon Mullins …. Philip Sully
Landlady of The Antrobus …. Joan Matheson
Village Woman …. Joan Walker

Director: David Johnstone

First broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in April 1989.