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| Fantastic Tales [bbc7] | ...Yet another new commission, this is a series of five tales from around the world, exploring the weird and the wonderful. Over the next five Sundays, the stories take us as far afield as Japan, Delhi, Eastern Europe, the Welsh border and America. The first tale, Hell Screen, is a chilling horror set in medieval Japan, written by RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA and read by Togo Igawa.... |
| In A Bamboo Grove | ...Judith Adams's dramatisation of the famous short story by Japanese author RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA. After an encounter with a bandit on the road, a samurai lies dead and his wife has been raped. But there are three very different accounts of the event.... |