The Dark is Rising, a drama by Susan Cooper for BBC World Service.
Episode 8, The Coming of the Cold.
As they pulled the old man off Mr Beaumont's motorcycle and into the big house,
the smell was so accurate they had once ran him a bath.
Will sat at the table.
The walker.
Why was he here?
What do you want?
There had to be some meaning behind it.
Perhaps he had simply been hovering for his own reasons and been blasted by the attack of the dark on the church.
But if so, why had the Rook, an agent of the dark, brought Will to save him from freezing to death?
The poor man in extremis.
Who was the walker anyway?
He's alive, thank God, but very cold.
We need to get him inside.
Why could all the powers of Grammarie tell him nothing about the old man at all?
of snow for this time of year have caused all trains to be cancelled by British rail.
The record snowfall has caused power outages across the country,
leaving many without lighting or heating.
The government has asked that