There Are Such Things

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Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll's darkly imaginative exploration of the life and career of Bela Lugosi, one of the cinema's great 'Kings of Horror'. A war veteran and an established classical stage actor in his native Hungary before he came to Hollywood to be chewed up and spat out by the movie moguls, Lugosi spent his troubled life fleeing his most famous creation, Count Dracula. Performed by Mark McDonnell, Steven McNicoll, Julia Duncanson and Gavin Mitchell. Director Patrick Rayner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.