The Rats in the Walls
David Bryson for Newsreel Voice
Narration in the style of Bob Danvers-Walker (“The Voice of British Pathé”). Provides historical or contextual framing.
- american
- british
- male adult
NEWSREEL VOICE (bright): From Shropshire (Pronounced: Shrop-sher) in the rolling hills of the Welsh Marches comes a story to stir the imagination! The ruins of Exham Priory, long abandoned and steeped in shadowy legend, are reborn in splendid style!
NEWSREEL VOICE: Purchased by American millionaire industrialist Mr. Ambrose Delopore, the ancient pile has undergone a stupendous restoration! Wholly new interiors, raised upon the bones of history itself, breathe fresh life into walls not trod by man since the days of King James the First.
NEWSREEL VOICE (cheerful, with a hint of irony): Of course, the locals whisper of darker things… of legends and tragedies that befell the cursed line of de la Poer (Day-law-Poor) centuries past. (Bright) But superstition, surely, has no place in the new modern England! What once was ruin is now rebirth. Exham Priory is alive again!