This performance of T.S. Eliot's works is of exceptional quality. It is a mono recording and the tapes are over 30 years old, but the beauty with which Sir Alec Guinness brings these poems to life is sublime. The first 60 sec of side 1 does sound somewhat extended, as if it had been stretched at some time, but this rapidly fades and the rest of the tapes, 119 mins, play perfectly.
It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts...
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