Eyes down for a game of 1970s Children’s Drama Bingo! Raven, a straight novelisation of the 1977 ATV serial of the same title, boasts virtually a full house. There’s a mystical stone circle, an ancient cave system, a looming environmental tragedy, a cantankerous old professor, references to both Arthurian legend and the nebulous power of the Zodiac, and – thrown into their midst – an angry Borstal tearaway made good. Anyone now standing up excitedly, waving their card and yelling “HOUSE!”, wins a magnum of Mateus Rosé presented to them by Naomi Grant, plucky young reporter at the Midshires Herald.…

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