A seasonal comedy by Christopher Russell for BBC Radio 4
Sinning is winning, evil’s increasing, so Grum the Prince of Evil. should be content. But he is not. Once a year his attempts to make the world completely nasty, are knocked for six by an old geezer in a red cloak driving a team of reindeer. If Grum wants to keep his job. then he must do something about Santa.
Cast: George Baker, Maurice Denham, Colin Jeavons, Haydn Wood, Peter Woodthorpe, John Church, Jane Knowles, Roger Hammond, David McAlister.
Music played by Gary Yershon
Announcer: Peter Jefferson
Directed by Michael Bartlett
BBC Radio 4
A year after my first radio job for Michael Bartlett, he brought me back to play seasonal music for this. I can’t remember much about it, except being excited to meet Maurice Denham, Colin Jeavons and Peter Woodthorpe, all three of whom were familiar to me from radio and TV. Jeavons had been as creepy a Uriah Heep as there has ever been when he played the part opposite Ian McKellan as David Copperfield in the BBC’s 1966 dramatisation, which I’d watched when I was twelve years old and have never forgotten.
