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The Candle of Darkness

by: Edward Boyd

Publication date: 1967

Topics: BBC Radio Drama

Language: English

"I don't dig you and I don't dig your tone."

Steve Gardiner - a hip Londoner and Korean War veteran - arrives in a small Scottish seaside town where locals are all under threat from a serial killer dubbed 'The Kind Man'.

Starring Teddy Johnson.

Edward Boyd's six-part serial thriller is reminiscent of American radio thrillers of the era, as our hero also addresses us directly.

Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson.
Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan
Miss Wylie ...... Marjorie Dalziel
PC McKenzie ...... John Young
The Police Sergeant ...... Kalman Glass
Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall
Mrs McGann ...... Helen Norman
Stella ...... Isobel Gardner
Albert ...... Paul Young
The Porter ...... Eric Wightman
The Tramp ...... Douglas Murchie
Delia Dewar ...... Effie Morrison
Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire

As well as acting, Teddy Johnson sang with his wife Pearl Carr - coming second in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Sing Little Birdie'. Johnson was also a DJ on Radio Luxembourg and later BBC Radio 2.

Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser.

First broadcast on the BBC Regional Home Service - Scotland in March 1954.