The Haunted Generation

Hope nobody minds me giving a little mention here to a brand new venture…

Where white noise meets dark forests, where waking terrors meet sleepy hollows, where analogue dreams meet digital nightmares…

Mulgrave Audio is a company producing original audio drama for multiple formats. Inspired by the fading memories of childhood television, the shadows of traditional folklore and the thwarted dreams of a space-age future, writers Bob Fischer, Andrew Orton and Andrew T. Smith have joined forces to create stories firmly rooted in the everyday, but with a distinct sense of the uncanny.

The company was formed in 2023, with debut release Simon Perkins’ Lurgy telling the story of a troubled 1974 schoolboy drawn into surreal conversations with a sinister TV continuity announcer. Newcomer Ethan Warren takes the title role, with genuine 1970s BBC announcer (and legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer) Roger Limb playing the part of his nemesis.

SIMON PERKINS’ LURGY
By Bob Fischer
Starring Ethan Warren and Roger Limb

“And now, an extra programme for students of Module DD305: Simon Perkins’ Lurgy. In this lecture, Professor Ronald Beardyweirdy examines Simon’s subconscious mind, and asks whether the increasingly strange and surreal nature of his dreams is the sign of a deeper, more chronic psychological condition…“

It’s September 1974, and listless teenager Simon Perkins still hasn’t gone back to school. Suffering from a debilitating and unspecified “lurgy”, he drifts through daytime naps on his grandmother’s settee, his only company the babble of the Open University modules on TV. And when the sinister continuity announcer begins to initiate conversations with him, Simon also begins to question the state of his mental health.

But could the television provide unlikely salvation from his torpor? All Simon has to do is reach out and touch the screen…

An original audio drama from Mulgrave Audio, available on CD and to download from here:
https://www.mulgraveaudio.co.uk/releases

Running Time: 57 minutes approx