THE SIGNAL-MAN DRAMATIZED Based on a Short Story by Charles Dickens

With crisp sound effects and an original score, Voices In the Wind Audio Theatre delivers a nice polish and American accents to Charles Dickens's classic 1866 story of the supernatural. When a newspaper reporter, portrayed with heartfelt energy by Laura Van Veen, calls "Halloa! Below there!" at the entrance of a railway tunnel, she's surprised to find a distressed and haggard railroad worker, dramatically voiced by John Bell, inside. He's convinced that the spooky apparitions he sees and hears nightly along the tracks foretell horrible disasters to come. Both actors smoothly handle the nineteenth-century dialogue as the listener learns that a deadly wreck has already occurred. Are more calamities to follow? B.P. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]