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8. Team Psychics

Episode 8 of 10

Alison is invited to take part with her fellow mediums in a Team Psychics show. Stars Alison Steadman and Rosie Cavaliero.

Alison is invited to take part with her fellow mediums in a Team Psychics show, but the event is disrupted when the elderly medium Mrs Etchells sees some unexpected figures in the back row of the audience.

The fiends from Alison's past are back, and they are intent on mischief. Their first victim is Mrs Etchells, who dies of a heart attack and brings Alison disturbing news from the other side.

Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a troubled past.

Alison ...... Alison Steadman
Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero
Silvana ...... Jacqueline Tong
Mrs Etchells ...... June Barrie

Dramatised by Caroline Harrington.

Director: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 5 Mar 202000:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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