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Broadcast on BBC at 6pm, starting Monday 29 October 2007, its 7 x 30 minute episodes covering Bram Stoker's epic tale of Count Dracula

Dracula - Brahm Stoker
The classic tale of horror - Frederick Jaeger stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the legend that has haunted the imagination of millions for over a hundred years!

Summoned to the forbidden heart of the Carpathian mountains, in the depths of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of the mysterious nobleman whom local legend insists is Nosferatu, the vampire…

Dramatised by Nick McCarty
Director Hamish Wilson
Music by Malcolm Clarke

First Broadcast October 2007 on BBC Radio 7

CAST
Count Dracula: Frederick Jaeger
Mina: Phyllis Logan
Seward: Peter Blythe
Van Helsing: Finlay Welsh
Renfield: David McKail
Quincey: Paul Birchard
Lucy: Sharon Maharaj
Arthur: Crawford Logan
Harker: Bernard Holley,
Agent: Andrew Conla-
Capt Mulrine: Michael Elde
Mother Superior: Stella Forge
Coachman: Frank Gallagher
Pensniff: John Shedden
Sister Agnes Vampire: Wendy Seager
Sister Anne Vampire: Monica Gibb
Vampire women: Amanda Whitehead


Episodes:
1. Solicitor Jonathan Harker and his fiance Mina's Transylvanian vampire ordeal begins.
2. Worried Mina awaits news from Transylvania, while Lucy sleepwalks after a shipwreck.
3. Jonathan lies ill in hospital and sleep-walking Lucy's well-being causes Mina concern.
4. Renfield's behaviour in his cell worsens, while Van Helsing fights to save poorly Lucy.
5. With Jonathan's return, Van Helsing is forced to reveal the shocking truth about Lucy.
6. The companions target the Count, but could one of them be a traitor?
7. With time running out for Mina, can Van Helsing avert a tragedy?