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There Are Such Things

A darkly imaginative exploration of the life and career of horror legend, Bela Lugosi. Stars Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll.

Darkly imaginative exploration of the life and career of Bela Lugosi, one of the cinema's great 'Kings of Horror'.

A war veteran and an established classical stage actor in his native Hungary before he came to Hollywood to be chewed up and spat out by the movie moguls, Lugosi spent his troubled life fleeing his most famous creation, Count Dracula.

Written by Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll.

Starring:

Mark McDonnell
Steven McNicoll
Julia Duncanson
Gavin Mitchell

Director Patrick Rayner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2001.

1 hour

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Next Friday15:00
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