![]() ![]() ![]() In the landscape around Will Stanton’s quiet English village, something is very wrong. ![]() Will discovers that he belongs to a group of ancient, time-travelling beings called the Old Ones, who are guardians of ‘the Light’ –– and must wage an unending battle against the forces of ‘the Dark’. The Dark Is Rising tells the story of Will Stanton, an ordinary boy who begins to have eerie and magical experiences on his 11th birthday, one snowy December. Sound design is by Olivier and Tony Award winner Gareth Fry ( The Encounter). Starring Toby Jones, Harriet Walter, Paul Rhys and Simon McBurney with an ensemble cast and 13-year old, Noah Alexander as Will. With original music by actor and singer-songwriter Johnny Flynn ( Emma, Ripley, The Dig), Luisa Gerstein and Heloise Tunstall-Behrens. ![]() The podcast is best listened to with headphones. Listen to the podcast on BBC Sounds here, or on Apple podcasts here. Originated by Complicité and Simon McBurney, directed and adapted for radio by McBurney with co-adaptor Robert MacFarlane, it is a co-production by Complicité and Catherine Bailey Productions for the BBC World Service. The Dark Is Rising is a 12-part dramatisation for radio of Susan Cooper's classic 1970s novel for families. The night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining ![]()
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