Gareth David-Lloyd, David Warner and Terry Molloy in "The Scarifyers: The Thirteen Hallows"

The Thirteen Hallows, a new audio play from the Scarifyers, features Doctor Who actors Terry Molloy (Genesis of the Daleks), David Warner (Dreamland) and Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd.

The Thirteen Hallows

STARRING DAVID WARNER, TERRY MOLLOY and GARETH DAVID-LLOYD

RELEASED ON DECEMBER 3RD 2012
ON DOUBLE CD AND DOWNLOAD, RRP £11.99

When a haunted chess set causes consternation at the British Chess Championships, and a horse magically materialises in Kettering Agricultural Museum, MI:13 are called to investigate.

Harry Crow (David Warner) and Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) follow the trail of inexplicable happenings to an unremarkable terraced house in South Wales, home to the mysterious Mr Merriman (David Benson). He’s very old, and very mad; but is there more to Merriman than first appears?

Meanwhile, in the South West of England, famed archaeologist Ralegh Radford (Ewan Bailey) is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the age. Britain’s Tutankhamen, the press are calling it. But what he certainly isn’t expecting to unearth is boisterous 1400-year-old knight Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr (Gareth David-Lloyd).

As Crow and Dunning unravel an unlikely plot to resurrect Britain’s greatest-ever hero, the race is on to stop sinister forces at home and abroad from finding… THE THIRTEEN HALLOWS.

This is the eighth adventure of THE SCARIFYERS.

The Scarifyers

The Scarifyers began life in 2006 with The Nazad Conspiracy, uniting 1930s ghost story writer Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) with Detective Inspector Lionheart (Nicholas Courtney), as they battled the vengeful spirit of Rasputin. In The Devil of Denge Marsh, Lionheart left the force to set up top-secret government department MI-13, and rescue Dunning from an evil cult and a giant squid. For King and Country saw our heroes save King George VI from an irate resurrected Oliver Cromwell; in The Curse of the Black Comet they travelled to Egypt in the company of Brian Blessed, and in The Secret Weapon of Doom they searched for the titular secret weapon, aided by Nigel Havers and Leslie Phillips. In 2011, Nicholas Courtney passed away, and new lead actor David Warner was introduced in The Magic Circle, continuing his adventures in 2012’s The Horror of Loch Ness.

The Thirteen Hallows stars Torchwood’s Gareth David Lloyd, Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Psychoville, Peep Show, The Now Show), and series regulars David Benson and Ewan Bailey.

BBC 7 (now Radio 4 Extra) picked up The Scarifyers in 2007, and has continued to broadcast the series ever since. The Radio Times called them ‘rollicking good fun.’

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With thanks to Simon Barnard for the press release and artwork.