015 Speculative Fiction – Old
The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow was not, strictly speaking, a radio drama; it was a dramatized
reading with sound effects and specially composed music. However, I’m including it here anyway. While extremely faithful to the original
story and therefore treating Ichabod Crane as a joke rather than serious
character, and therefore adhering to the barely hidden suggestion that Brom
Bones masqueraded as the Headless Horseman to scare Crane off, nevertheless the
framing of the two-part piece and the mysterious music did allow for the
suggestion—as the folklore of the sleepy Hudson River Valley demanded—that
there were still something uncanny going on.
Martin Jarvis made a fine narrator, but he mispronounced a few American
words. The other voices heard were
Ayesha Antoine, Delroy Brown, John Cummins, Gerard McDermott, Carolyn Pickles,
Sophie Roberts, Nick Sayce, and Ella Smith.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
was produced by Gemma Jenkins in 2005 with original music by David Pickvance.
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