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The return of Merlin

Tech organisation NICE are taking over. Mark has been arrested for the murder of Hengist. But Jane's visions summon a power that may save him.

We're not in Narnia anymore. It's the late 1940s and an exhausted Britain is trying to recover from the war. The establishment of NICE (National Institute for Coordinated Experiments) seems to offer a positive future. There are confident predictions of a cure for cancer and new treatments for antisocial behaviour that will made prisons redundant. A tech revolution is blooming without restraint and NICE are secretly experimenting with the creation of trans-human beings of superior intellect. C S Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.

Jane (Anneika Rose) is tormented by terrible nightmares about a severed head that talks. She tries to talk to her husband Mark (Joel MacCormack) about it, but he's preoccupied with his work as a new college fellow at the University. And when his Mark's college sell Bragdon Wood to NICE, he's surprised to find himself offered a job at the organisation. There's an old myth that Merlin is buried under Bragdon Wood. Could that be why NICE is so keen to own it?

CAST

Jane ..... Anneika Rose
Mark ..... Joel MacCormack
Hardcastle ..... Jane Slavin
Merlin ..... Ifan Huw Dafydd
Ransom ..... Oliver Hembrough
Mrs Dimble .... Siobhan Redmond
Grace ..... Jane Gurnett
Feverstone ..... Simon Armstrong
Wither .... Matthew Bulgo
Frost ..... David Menkin
Alcasan ..... Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer

Dramatised by Melissa Murray

Production co-ordinators: Lindsay Rees and Eleri Sydney McAuliffe
Sound design by Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis
Directed by John Norton and Emma Harding

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