The Fall of The House of Usher

'I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn, and gazed at the vacant eye-like windows of the house.

Roderick is a tormented man - with a twin sister suffering an illness physicians don't understand.

Edgar Allan Poe’s 19th century Gothic tale.

Dramatised by David Campton.

Roderick Usher.....Edward Petherbridge
Narrator....Tim Pigott-Smith
Doctor...Roger Hume

Guitarist: John Turner

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1978.