Valentine Dyall has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear.
Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear
Summary
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, AKA The Man in Black.
These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944); And The Deep Shuddered by Monckton Hoffe (20/11/1945).
Amongst the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring and Gladys Spencer.
©2010 AudioGO Ltd (P)2010 AudioGO Ltd
The Prophesies of Nostradamus (Dramatised)
Summary
Michael Nostradamus is regarded as the most accurate prophet of all time. His prophesies were collected and published in a book called The Centuries, which was the 14th Century's best-seller after the Bible. Nostradamus foretold the future of Catherine de Medici and all her children. He forecasted the execution of Charles the 1st of England, the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell, the terror of the French Revolution, and the rise and fall of Napoleon. As for the 20th century, Nostradamus predicted the German inflation of the 1930s, the war against Hitler, and aspects of General Franco's life. The most terrifying of his declarations, revealed here, has thankfully not materialized.
©1979 David Pinner (P)1979 Ivan and Inge Berg
Monsters of the Earth (Dramatised)
Summary
The earth teems with strange creatures. Most we know about. But there are others that seem to flit like ghosts in the background of our experience. Large footprints in the Himalayan snows start speculation about the yeti or abominable snowman. A harsh cry in the African jungle sparks fears of the dreaded chemosit. A dark shape rears up from the waters of a Scottish loch. Could it be Nessie, the Loch Ness monster? What about the sea serpents so feared by ancient mariners? Be prepared for strange and extraordinary tales in this dramatized investigation.
©1979 Robert Chapman (P)1979 Ivan and Inge Berg
The Mystery of the Pyramids (Dramatised)
Summary
Ten miles west of Cairo is the plateau of Giza. There, starkly dominating the skyline, stands the largest stone construction on the planet. Its structure shows a highly developed understanding of mathematics, astronomy, precision engineering, navigational theory, and geography. According to sci-fi author David McIlwaine, carbon 14 dating, the most reliable (though not infallible) scientific method of establishing age, places the construction at around 70,000 years BC, at least 60,000 years before man's discovery of these sciences. The Pyramid of Cheops is an almost total enigma. It is not a tomb, it does not appear to be a monument, yet it was built to endure the ravages of time. All conventional attempts to find a reason for the existence of the Great Pyramid - other than the simplistic one of a personal monument to Cheops - have failed conspicuously. A number of bizarre and fantastic alternative theories have been proposed and investigated. Some of the conclusions reached seem to bear more relation to science fiction than to science fact. They talk of strange and inexplicable forces, observed events that defy the laws of physics and molecular biology, and unknown energy fields that have an extraordinary effect on the human mind. Is this the stuff of what Egyptologists call "pyramidiocy"? Or is it something more?
©1979 David McIlwaine (P)1979 Ivan and Inge Berg