Emily's Ghost (1994) by Colin Finbow

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A play with an interesting history, Emily's Ghost was originally a film made by Colin Finbow's 'Childrens Film Unit'. The CFU was a project that gave young people a chance to be involved in all aspects of a film production; as a result they tended to tell stories featuring children and young people, but Finbow seems to have liked Gothic subject matter as several of these projects are dark and/or supernatural in theme.

The primarily juvenile casts of these films were often complimented by seasoned adult professionals who had agreed to give their time to what they felt was a worthy project - the 1992 film version of Emily's Ghost boasts the presence of Anna Massey, Ron Moody, Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres.

Finbow apparently liked the story enough that a couple of years later he adapted the script for this BBC radio version. Several members of the original cast return - Anna Massey, but also Anna Jones as Emily and Emily Howes as The Ghost.

The story itself is rather clever, in that it's openly derivative of many children's time-slip stories while also introducing one or two new ideas with it. As the title suggests, Emily starts to see a ghost from the distant past, a girl who drowned long ago... she begins to realise that she is in some way connected to this girl from the past...

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