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Christmas Special Series 2025
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00:00What a bother.
00:06I was on my way to a concert.
00:08Ah.
00:11Paganini.
00:12Marvellous.
00:14Is it?
00:15Can't say I've been.
00:17Husband arranged.
00:18Musical concert, I mean.
00:21I gather they can be rather long.
00:23Some.
00:28Good, they're still doing them, though, I suppose.
00:31Food for the soul.
00:34But what else are we fighting for?
00:45Doodlebogs, eh?
00:47Whatever next?
00:49Navy.
00:50Uh-huh.
00:51Good for you.
00:53And you?
00:53Reserved occupation.
00:56Girl minor.
00:57Well, schoolteacher.
00:58What about the last show?
01:02Do you fight in that?
01:04Invalid it out.
01:06Oh, bad luck.
01:09Flat feet.
01:14Nerves.
01:19Shall we?
01:19Oh, I envy him.
01:35Some of the girls, I never liked that.
01:38Fall asleep on the edge of a cliff.
01:39Never had that skill, myself.
01:46Adolf doesn't make it any easier.
01:51Do you dream?
01:54Beg pardon?
01:55When you do sleep, do you dream?
02:00Well, yes.
02:03No more than the next person, I suppose.
02:06But we all dream, don't we?
02:08Heavens, even dogs dream.
02:10And have any of them, your dreams, I mean, have they ever, have they ever come true?
02:18Any of mine?
02:20Yes.
02:22Well, I, I once won a hundred on an unfancied nag at Newmarket.
02:26That was a bit of a dream come true.
02:28And of course, when Alex said, I do, that was something.
02:30You misunderstand me.
02:30No, I'm only pulling your leg.
02:32You mean the nighttime variety, eh?
02:36Sleep the nits up, the raveled what's-it and all that.
02:40Well, I always dream I'm back at school.
02:44My old form mistress.
02:46Miss Houlihan.
02:48Absolute beast.
02:50Taught chemistry.
02:51Breath like a serpent.
02:53Well, I'm stood before her and they're all together, and I haven't done my prep.
02:56Lord knows what that means.
02:59Everyone has those dreams.
03:00No.
03:03But sometimes they're not so easy to explain.
03:09Something you want to get off your chest?
03:16With my story.
03:20I can find no explanation.
03:25None at all.
03:26It came out of the dark, and into the dark it has gone again.
03:34What did?
03:38Well, I was 16 when it first came to me.
03:42It began with my being set down at the door of a big house, where, in the logic of a dream, I understood I was going to stay.
04:02Tea was being served in the garden.
04:15Tea was being served in the garden.
04:15Tea, no.
04:15Tea was being served in the garden.
04:28Tea, no.
04:30Tea was being served in the garden.
04:31Tea was being served in the garden.
04:33So you knew this stone chap?
04:37Hardly at all.
04:38It's the odd thing, and I rather disliked what I did know of him.
04:43But it was someone else that made the greatest impression.
04:51The mother.
04:52In that strange manner of dreams, we all sat there in complete, uncanny silence.
05:10It was very hot, oppressive.
05:15And then at last, Mrs. Stone said,
05:20Jack will show you your room.
05:22I've given you the room in the tower.
05:28I didn't know why.
05:30But her words made my heart just sink.
05:34I felt like I had always known that I should have the room in the tower,
05:49and that inside it was something...
06:04something dreadful.
06:08The dream has occurred to me, intermittently, ever since.
06:23The dream has occurred to me, intermittently, ever since.
06:35It's exactly the same.
06:38Uh, not exactly.
06:40Variations on a theme.
06:43Like Paganini.
06:43Most often, it's the same.
06:52The arrival.
06:53The butler.
06:56The tea laid out on the lawn.
07:06Jack Stone.
07:11The family.
07:12The awful silence succeeded by that one deadly sentence.
07:23Jack will show you your room.
07:26I've given you the room in the tower.
07:28The one that who said겠다 when in the tower.
07:40Okay.
07:42The secret 나중에 redundancy.
07:42The closing of the tower.
07:43The два the ae.
07:45The joining room in the tower.
07:47The unknown Mama.
07:48...
07:48The one that I said would have been.
07:49The darkness.
07:49The blue to.
07:50The light.
07:51The ci Raptors.
07:51The two and a retreat.
07:52The black.
07:53The way that our friends went meio much anymore.
07:54And always the same ending.
08:02Terror.
08:04But what was in that room?
08:10Oh, I...
08:11I never quite saw what it was.
08:17How very odd.
08:18I dare say the Hitchrinkers would have something to say about that.
08:26About what it means, I mean.
08:30Yes, what it means.
08:32This has been going on since you were 16.
08:35Go off and on.
08:38There was one time...
08:40I was in another room, playing cards.
08:48Jack will show you your room.
09:18I have given you the room in the tower.
09:48And then for months and months, I didn't have the dream at all.
10:06And I started to think to...
10:07Or to pray.
10:10That maybe it had gone for good.
10:14No such luck.
10:17No.
10:20No.
10:22It's one night.
10:23It came again.
10:25But this time, differently.
10:26How?
10:44My heart leapt.
10:47She was gone.
10:49I wouldn't have to sleep in that dreadful place.
10:51Jack will show you your room.
10:58I've given you the room in the tower.
11:03It seemed to come...
11:05From all around.
11:10Her...
11:10Her voice.
11:14Otherwise, it was all...
11:15That's horribly familiar.
11:22Except...
11:23There was a dreadful odor of decay in the room.
11:26You see, sometimes I dreamt it two or three nights in succession.
11:41And then months would go by without a peep.
11:44And far from diminishing through repetition, it got worse.
11:48My terror.
11:49It was...
11:53Strangely...
11:55Consistent.
11:57Death and marriage...
11:59Visited this...
12:00This silent family.
12:03I never, in the dream...
12:05After Mrs. Stone had died, set eyes on her again.
12:09And it was always her voice that told me that the room in the tower...
12:14Was prepared for me.
12:19You began your story by asking me if any of my dreams had come true.
12:28Yes.
12:30It was...
12:31A few years back.
12:34It was during that strange period...
12:35When we all thought that Chamberlain might actually bring it off.
12:39Peace, I mean.
12:40I had arranged to play tennis with my friend John Clinton.
12:46And...
12:46It was a warm day.
12:48We'd had a thoroughly nice time.
12:49And he said he would stand me tea at his place.
12:52A place that I had never visited.
12:54And...
12:54On the way there, I had nodded off in the car.
13:11Wake up, Rog.
13:12We're here.
13:13We're here.
13:13We're here.
13:13We're here.
13:17The old homestead.
13:21Come on.
13:22Ma will be waiting for us in the garden.
13:24Come on.
13:24Ma will be waiting for us in the garden.
13:28Ma will be waiting for us in the garden.
13:36We'll be waiting for us in the garden.
13:38We'll be waiting for you.
13:40We'll be waiting for you.
13:40We'll be waiting for you.
13:41But it was different.
13:42We'll be waiting for us in the garden.
13:44There was no silent and somehow terrible family.
13:46All of them.
13:47The large assembly of very friendly people, many of whom were known to me.
13:52And you know Ted, of course.
13:53Oh.
13:54Ted.
13:55And his plain sister, Jessica.
13:58It's lovely to meet you.
14:00Yes.
14:01I'm afraid I'm going to have to steal him away.
14:02I'll run in right back.
14:03Oh.
14:04This is the darling bedder who has been in the family as, well, as long as I can remember.
14:09Hello.
14:10Hello.
14:11And this, this is my mother.
14:20Oh.
14:21Jack's told me so much about you.
14:23So very glad to meet you at last.
14:25And you.
14:26Please.
14:28Mama.
14:29Mwah.
14:30Lovely day, isn't it?
14:35Mm.
14:36So we thought we'd have tea on the lawn.
14:39Yes, indeed.
14:40I do wonder if we should have a storm later.
14:44You think so?
14:45Mm.
14:46Well, what can I get to you?
14:48Indian or China?
14:49Oh.
14:50Um.
14:51And there's Battenberg and some sort of sponge, not Cook's Forte, alas.
14:57Ha, ha, ha, ha.
15:02The tea pursued his cheerful course.
15:05And then, at last...
15:07Near me.
15:09I believe you are right, Mr. Winstanley.
15:11And we are going to have a thunderstorm.
15:14How dark it has become.
15:16Hmm.
15:17Jack will show you your room.
15:19I've given you the room in the tower.
15:23Yes, of course.
15:28Right up at the top of the house.
15:30But I think you'll be comfortable.
15:32We're absolutely full up.
15:35Would you like to go and see it now?
15:46Just this way, Roger.
15:53Just keep going, old chap.
16:06I'll let you get settled in.
16:23The room was just as in my dream.
16:30Except for two things.
16:32A portrait of Jack Stone.
16:36Older now.
16:38And facing him.
16:42Mrs. Stone it was.
16:57And all the...
17:00The horror of my nightmare came flooding back.
17:03That there was a dreadful exuberance of vitality shining through that envelope of withered flesh.
17:10An exuberance that was wholly malign.
17:12A vitality that foamed and frosted with unimaginable evil.
17:18Julius Stone.
17:29By Julius Stone.
17:31Got all you want, old man?
17:35Rather more than I want.
17:37Oh, yes.
17:39Her.
17:40Hard-faced old bird.
17:43Had the place before us.
17:45On her own, as I recall.
17:49She hasn't flattered herself, has she?
17:52Scarcely human.
17:54Well, it certainly isn't very pleasant.
17:57Hardly conducive to a good night's sleep.
18:00I mean, we hid it up here to get it out of the way.
18:02I can have it taken down if you want.
18:05If you would.
18:06Are you all right, old man?
18:09I will be.
18:14Hm.
18:19By George, the old lady's a weight.
18:26Ah.
18:28Down here.
18:32I wonder...
18:34if she had something on her mind.
18:39Oh.
18:41Uh, I seem to have cut my hand.
18:44My God, me too.
18:50How a scratch.
18:52How queer.
18:53Yeah.
19:16Is there something on your mind, Jack?
19:18No, no.
19:19No, no.
19:21Come along, we know each other well.
19:23Something's been troubling you all evening.
19:26Hm.
19:27Thomas, the one who helped us with the picture.
19:31He had blood on his hand, too.
19:33Did you notice?
19:34I did.
19:36I asked him if he'd cut himself.
19:37He said he supposed he had.
19:40But he could find no mark of it.
19:43Now, where did that blood come from?
19:46It's damned odd.
19:47Jack.
19:50Jack.
19:53Do you dream?
19:54Now, here's another odd thing.
19:57Toby does that about half a dozen times a day.
20:01It's as if he can...
20:03see something out there on the lawn.
20:06Something bad.
20:09No, there's nothing there?
20:13No.
20:16No.
20:19No.
20:21No.
20:22I don't know.
20:52I don't know.
21:22I don't know.
21:52I don't know.
21:54Roger!
21:56What the earth is...
21:59Good God, man.
22:00Come here.
22:01Good God, Roger.
22:02What's happened?
22:11The picture.
22:12Oh, Jack.
22:16Yeah, yeah.
22:17Stop here, Jack.
22:18Stop.
22:18Yeah.
22:22Oh, my God!
22:26Oh, my God!
22:27Well,
22:53there's a thing
22:57on the floor
22:59all spotted with earth
23:03like
23:07like what they bury people in
23:20I wonder if you remember
23:21reading about a case
23:23in the newspapers
23:24ten years ago, sir
23:26an attempt was made
23:28to bury a woman
23:29who had committed suicide
23:31an attempt?
23:32three times they tried
23:34and each time
23:36after a few days
23:37the coffin was found
23:38protruding from the earth
23:39at last
23:41it was decided
23:42they should bury her
23:45in unconsecrated ground
23:47you can guess where
23:51the woman killed herself
24:05in the room
24:06in the tower
24:07her name was
24:09Julia Stone
24:11the not
24:34I don't know, but I don't have to be able to do this
24:35I don't have to be able to make it
24:36Did you tell your friend about the dream?
24:48No, I've never told anyone before tonight.
24:55And the house, what happened to the...
24:58Oh, it's been requisitioned. It's a cottage hospital now.
25:01Not far from here, as it happens.
25:03And the dream, the recurring dream.
25:06It ended, yes? You don't have it anymore?
25:09Um...
25:10No.
25:14It's an extraordinary thing.
25:17It really is.
25:19You should write it down, or tell the papers, or...
25:22No, I don't think so.
25:27I hope I make that concert.
25:31Yes.
25:33Well, um...
25:34Will you be all right?
25:38Is there anything I can do for you?
25:42Like what?
25:43Oh, I'm not sure exactly.
25:45It's just the sort of thing one says, isn't it? I'm sorry.
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