Watched the Beeb's half-hour version of Poe's William Wilson this morning and enjoyed it a lot. Norman Eshley plays the title characters, and is a surprisingly good fit, giving a louche performance that I would have thought beyond his range (he's an actor I like a lot, but he really rather surprised me in this). He's only on screen for the final two-thirds but narrates the schooldays sections of the story. I'd mentioned the play in my recent book 'Chopped Meat', and had the vaguest recollection of seeing it on a repeat screening in 1978, but never knew it existed online; I was reading on The Fall website about some letters up for auction, correspondence between Mark E Smith and Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, from the late 70s, and in one of the letters Smith mentions the Beeb's William Wilson and recommends it to Mac (this must have been just before the 1978 repeat) - the guy reporting all of this on the Fall site then put up a handy link to the show, to my amazement! And here it is. The masked ball, with a handful of extras waltzing across an open doorway, shows the low budget, but aside from that I thought this was great, and the appearances of the 'other' WW are worthy of Lawrence Gordon Clark. 1975 had also seen a 'Centre Play' horror, a version of 'The Imp of the Perverse', which I note was screened at NFT2 in 2013 as part of a season of British horror telly.
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I'll certainly have a look at that.