"'The Road' is a ghost story set in the 18th century and I have tried to place its characters firmly there, in the Age of Reason. One of them is a sub-Johnsonian iconoclast of the London coffee houses, complacent in his visions of a perfectible future. His despised rival is a country squire, an amateur of natural philosophy, whose meek but insatiable curiosity makes him the prototype pf the socially irresponsible scientist. Neither man is quite so simplified as that, of course. Each is full of confusions and contradictions. The idealist is also a sensual bigot; the would-be scientist has yet to cast off superstition. But between them these two possess the strands of thinking that will lead to some of the horrors of our own time." - Nigel Kneale, introduction to Year of the Sex Olympics / The Road / The Stone Tape (scripts) [Ferret Fantasy, 1976 ]

CAST

Sir Timothy Hassall	JAMES MAXWELL
Lavinia (his wife)	ANN BELL
Gideon  Cobb	JOHN PHILLIPS
Jethro (Cobb's Servant)	CLIFTON JONES
Sam Towler	RODNET BEWES
Tetsy	MEG RITCHIE
Lukey Chase	VICTOR PLATT
Big Jeff	DAVID KING
Producer	JOHN ELLIOT
Director	CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
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