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1. The Party Game

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Being hypnotised by his brother-in-law at a dinner party awakens strange abilities in Tom Wallace. Read by Trevor White.

Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life in a seemingly normal neighbourhood.

That was until his brother-in-law hypnotised him at a dinner party - a chance event that awakens psychic abilities he never knew he possessed...

Richard Matheson’s supernatural novel was published in 1958.

Abridged in five parts by Neville Teller.

Read by Trevor White.

‘A Stir of Echoes’ is one of several of Richard’s books to be adapted for the cinema, including ‘I Am Legend’, ‘What Dreams May Come’ and ‘Duel’.

Producer: Heather Larmour

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2009.

30 minutes

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Tue 25 Jan 202200:00
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