The Dark is Rising, a drama by Susan Cooper for BBC World Service.
Episode 6, The Opening of the Present.
Together Will and Merriman left the small room in which they had first retrieved and then destroyed the Book of Grammary,
the magical book which had taught Will everything about the ancient battle between the light and the dark.
and when they stepped back into the gathering in the next one and back into 1875.
With a jolt, we'll notice that there...
Threading his way through the crowd in his dapper green coat, seemingly quite recovered, was Hawkin.
Merriman, look!
There's Hawkin!
But beside Will, Merriman had stiffened.
Merriman?
What is it?
It is peril, Will.
Come through my doing.
I have made the worst mistake that an old one can make.
And Will saw that lines of pain had deepened on his strong face.
Merriman, look!
It's Mackie Barnes, Merriman!
She's speaking to Hawkin!
Yes, the witch girl is here.